Finally, someone with as twisted a mind as mine!
Kelly J. Lipp VP Manufacturing & CTO STORServer, Inc. 485-B Elkton Drive Colorado Springs, CO 80907 719-266-8777 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Clark Sent: Friday, December 08, 2006 3:07 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] copypools on disk on AIX? You have volf and roundrobin. Sounds like a fairytale to me. [RC] On Dec 4, 2006, at 1:15 PM, Lawrence Clark wrote: > Two oddities I notice so far: > 1). I created a devclass with vola-vole then started the copypool > creations. > I subsequently added volf. While it has created volumes in volf, only > a few. > It seems to use a roundrobin algorithm and since it had created a lot > of volumes before the devclass def was updated to include volf, volf > has gotten little use. > > 2).TSMMANAGER daily reports shows write errors to many of the volumes. > I think > this is generated when the 'volume' is full, because otherwise I can > view the contents of the volume and the scheduled copyool creations > completed succ4essfully over the weekend. > > Space 'Volume' usage imbalance: > > /dev/lvvgsata2 1042022400 25190448 98% 260 1% > /var/diskpool/satacopy > vola > /dev/lvvgsata3 1042022400 29388856 98% 258 1% > /var/diskpool/satacopy > volb > /dev/lvvgsata4 1042022400 20906952 98% 262 1% > /var/diskpool/satacopy > voc > /dev/lvvgsata5 1042022400 8396816 100% 263 1% > /var/diskpool/satacopy > vold > /dev/lvvgsata6 1042022400 25190448 98% 259 1% > /var/diskpool/satacopy > vole > /dev/lvvgsata1 1042022400 1037871320 1% 17 1% > /var/dispool/satacopy > volf > > >>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/04/06 2:08 PM >>> > This looks good, but I would still create these volumes using define > vol numberofvol rather than letting TSM create them. > > > Kelly J. Lipp > VP Manufacturing & CTO > STORServer, Inc. > 485-B Elkton Drive > Colorado Springs, CO 80907 > 719-266-8777 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -----Original Message----- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Lawrence Clark > Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 11:43 AM > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] copypools on disk on AIX? > > Yes, thank you. > > After posting my question I went to the 5.3 Admin Ref and saw I needed > a file type device class for copypools. Defined then, changed the > script, and since TSM saw them as a new copypool it copied all the > data over, over this past weekend. about 2 TB of copypool data. > > We just have the large volumes ( that are RAID5) on a DS4800. TSM auto > creates the volumes: > > /var/diskpool/satacopyv- CPSATABG CPSATABG 2,048.0 0.0 > Empty > oc/00008733.BFS > /var/diskpool/satacopyv- CPSATABG CPSATABG 2,048.0 77.1 > Filling > oc/00008738.BFS > /var/diskpool/satacopyv- CPSATABG CPSATABG 2,048.0 51.4 > Filling > oc/0000873E.BFS > /var/diskpool/satacopyv- CPSATABG CPSATABG 2,048.0 98.6 > Filling > oc/00008743.BFS > /var/diskpool/satacopyv- CPSATABG CPSATABG 2,048.0 98.6 > Filling > oc/00008747.BFS > > From AIX mounted filesystem view: > > /dev/lvvgsata2 1042022400 0 100% 266 1% > /var/diskpool/satacopy > vola > /dev/lvvgsata3 1042022400 0 100% 265 1% > /var/diskpool/satacopy > volb > /dev/lvvgsata4 1042022400 0 100% 266 1% > /var/diskpool/satacopy > voc > /dev/lvvgsata5 1042022400 0 100% 265 1% > /var/diskpool/satacopy > vold > /dev/lvvgsata6 1042022400 0 100% 265 1% > /var/diskpool/satacopy > vole > /dev/lvvgsata1 1042022400 1037871320 1% 17 1% > /var/dispool/satacopy > volf > > > >>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/04/06 12:24 PM >>> > We tried file device class with our onsite pool with disappointing > results. > I believe the problem was our decision not to stripe across LUN's. > This > would have made performance much better, at the cost of a LUN failure > causing more damage than if we used them indicidually. Now, I can't > remember the last time I saw a LUN failure, but YMMV. We will > probably address this issue again when the decision is made to move > our copy pool to disk. > > On 12/1/06, Lawrence Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> We are migrateing our copypool from cartridge to a DS4800. >> >> From the manuals copypools only support FILE type devices. >> >> My assumptions ( on AIX) are: >> >> -I create logical volumes and file systems -Define the device class >> -TSM then creates the files in the filesystem >> >> Anyone ever done this with copypools on AIX? >> >>>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/01/06 9:56 AM >>> >> Know of anyone using a vaulting service with transmissions over the >> Internet with TSM? 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