We are doing some serious looking at our "dr" (or BC) plans. One thought for an offsite TSM server would be as a VMWare guest and/or multiple guests.
Since an absolute requirement would be a TS1130 tape drive (to restore the DB), the question came up about whether you could virtualize the TS1130/drivers so a Linux guest VM could access these drives. If this is doable, has anyone done such a configuration, that actually works? What did it take? How about multiple TSM servers on one box (VM or real hardware)? How would they share the tape drives - only through library sharing as we do now? What if I had to cram 5-TSM servers on one VMWare (or hardware) guest, since our current configuration splits our 3494 library between 2-TSM library manager servers? Another thought was to have a "warm" VMWare TSM server running offsite and doing DB backups via server-to-server storage pools but was considering how much work it would be to rebuild another VMWare TSM server from the DB backups on this VMWare TSM server? Looking for any input/feedback on folks who have gone down this path, either successfully or not! If I have to go back to management to say "gotta have a physical server and tape drives to even think about recovering/rebuilding a TSM server offsite", I need to justify/back it. Zoltan Forray TSM Software & Hardware Administrator Virginia Commonwealth University UCC/Office of Technology Services [email protected] - 804-828-4807 Don't be a phishing victim - VCU and other reputable organizations will never use email to request that you reply with your password, social security number or confidential personal information. For more details visit http://infosecurity.vcu.edu/phishing.html
