I may be wrong but from reading the 7.1.3 doco new container approach combined with the inline dedup eliminate the need for some of these processes. Also, where traditionally a "copy" storage pool was used they now refer to it as a "protect" storage pool which has the ability to be replicated to another "onsite" or "offsite" container storage pool.
Remember that with deduplicated data many of the processes you mentioned required that the data be rehydrated to be performed. An added benefit is if in fact these processes are no longer required it will free up system resources and as a result lower storage costs and increase scalability. Fortunately, there are some good resources for additional information: IBM you tube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGkjRNkO0AQNyQbWhS1tTzw IBM knowledge center for 7.1.3: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGSG7_7.1.3/tsm/welcome.html I will be installing it on two systems today to begin testing, hopefully I'll be able to comment more soon...... -Rick Adamson -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of James Thorne Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2015 5:41 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM 7.1.3 and Directory-container storage pools Hi Karel. That's the conclusion we came to too. James. -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Karel Bos Sent: 16 September 2015 10:17 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM 7.1.3 and Directory-container storage pools Hi, So we get a new type of storage pools, the directory-container storage pools. These enable TSM to do in flight dedup. But you cannot use any of the following functions with directory-container storage pools: - Migration - Reclamation - Aggregation - Collocation - Simultaneous-write - Storage pool backup - Virtual volumes So having in flight dedupe removes any way of doing bck stg other than use node replication to get the data in a second place. Pretty bad limitation in my opinion or am I missing something? Kind regards, Karel
