On 7 jan 2010, at 22:21, Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU wrote: > 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. >
I believe that the ts1130 is fc only, no scsi or sas, vmware doesn't support access to fc drives from a guest, last time I heard. So there it stops. If you'd have scsi or sas tape devices, you could get them to work from within a vmware guest, no problem. Support might be an issue, if I read the docs right. > 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 > zfor...@vcu.edu - 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 -- Met vriendelijke groeten/Kind Regards, Remco Post r.p...@plcs.nl +31 6 248 21 622
