Re: TSM in AIX WPARS

[Steven Langdale]

Remco

Am I missreading this technote:
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21461901

That is saying virtual NPIV adapters are OK.

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> Remco Post
> Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 3:20 PM
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM in AIX WPARS
>
> I don't think there are any major issues, but if you need access to tape
> drives you must have physical HBA's in each WPAR if you want to run an
> officially supported configuration. Virtual HBA's work, but are not
> officially supported, so if you run into any issues you might be on your
> own.
>
>

Re: TSM in AIX WPARS

[Steven Harris]

Thanks Guys

My AIX Guru said that WPARs are more trouble than they are worth and
there are complexities as each instance is on a different subnet, but
the WPARs must all be on the same subnet.  Thus we have shelved that
idea for now.

Regards

Steve.

On 25/01/2012 9:13 PM, Steven Langdale wrote:

Remco

Am I missreading this technote:
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21461901

That is saying virtual NPIV adapters are OK.

Original Message-

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of
Remco Post
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 3:20 PM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM in AIX WPARS

I don't think there are any major issues, but if you need access to tape
drives you must have physical HBA's in each WPAR if you want to run an
officially supported configuration. Virtual HBA's work, but are not
officially supported, so if you run into any issues you might be on your
own.

3592 drives in 3584 library

[Ehresman,David E.]

On TSM 6.2, a "q drive f=d" displays the WWN of the 3592 drives in my 3584 
library.  However, a "select * from drives' does NOT display the WWN.  Is there 
a table I can run a query against that does display the WWN of tape drives?

David

Windsows 2008 failover cluster, SQL Server and TSM

[Bill Boyer]

Windows 2008 R2 failover cluster with SQL as a resource. All the cluster
disks are "owned" by the SQL resource. I need to install a client scheduler
for the cluster backups. The documentation for doing that is assuming you
will just be doing backups of the cluster drives and adding the generic
resource you add the cluster drives so it all fails over together.



I need to make it so that the generic service is part of the SQL resource
and gets failed over with that. Anyone out there done this type of
configuration? I have the generic service installed and the TDP SQL backups
run fine, but last night the SQL resource failed over and my service didn't.
Have failed SQL backups this morning.



If I try to add a generic service to the SQL resource, it doesn't appear to
give me the option to replicate registry keys.



Any help would be appreciated.



Bill Boyer
DSS, Inc.
(610) 927-4407
"Enjoy life. It has an expiration date." - ??

SV: Windsows 2008 failover cluster, SQL Server and TSM

[Christian Svensson]

Have you put the dsm.opt file on the cluster disk?
And have you recognize the password registry key?

Best Regards
Christian Svensson

Cell: +46-70-325 1577
E-mail: christian.svens...@cristie.se
Supported Platform for CPU2TSM:: 
http://www.cristie.se/cpu2tsm-supported-platforms


Från: Bill Boyer [bjdbo...@comcast.net]
Skickat: den 25 januari 2012 15:58
Till: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Ämne: Windsows 2008 failover cluster, SQL Server and TSM

Windows 2008 R2 failover cluster with SQL as a resource. All the cluster
disks are "owned" by the SQL resource. I need to install a client scheduler
for the cluster backups. The documentation for doing that is assuming you
will just be doing backups of the cluster drives and adding the generic
resource you add the cluster drives so it all fails over together.



I need to make it so that the generic service is part of the SQL resource
and gets failed over with that. Anyone out there done this type of
configuration? I have the generic service installed and the TDP SQL backups
run fine, but last night the SQL resource failed over and my service didn't.
Have failed SQL backups this morning.



If I try to add a generic service to the SQL resource, it doesn't appear to
give me the option to replicate registry keys.



Any help would be appreciated.



Bill Boyer
DSS, Inc.
(610) 927-4407
"Enjoy life. It has an expiration date." - ??

Re: 3592 drives in 3584 library

[Allen S. Rout]

On 01/25/2012 09:34 AM, Ehresman,David E. wrote:

On TSM 6.2, a "q drive f=d" displays the WWN of the 3592 drives in my 3584 library.  
However, a "select * from drives' does NOT display the WWN.  Is there a table I can run a 
query against that does display the WWN of tape drives?



I'd expect that to be transient data.  You might get a different WWN
entirely at a different moment: the different ports have different names.

If you want to do that mapping, I'd suggest you do it from the device
level, in the OS.

A few weeks ago I posted some scripts I use to keep track of that sort
of information;  they might or might not be useful for what you're after.


- Allen S. Rout

Re: TSM in AIX WPARS

[Remco Post]

No, you've not, I completely missed that technote.

On 25 jan. 2012, at 11:13, Steven Langdale wrote:

> Remco
>
> Am I missreading this technote:
> http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21461901
>
> That is saying virtual NPIV adapters are OK.
>
> Original Message-
>> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of
>> Remco Post
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 3:20 PM
>> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
>> Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM in AIX WPARS
>>
>> I don't think there are any major issues, but if you need access to tape
>> drives you must have physical HBA's in each WPAR if you want to run an
>> officially supported configuration. Virtual HBA's work, but are not
>> officially supported, so if you run into any issues you might be on your
>> own.
>>
>>

--
Met vriendelijke groeten/Kind Regards,

Remco Post
r.p...@plcs.nl
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Re: TSM in AIX WPARS

[Roger Deschner]

Run them as multiple TSM instances in a single AIX image. Works fine
under TSM 5.5, but it's even easier in TSM 6 than in previous versions,
and it's lower overhead, easier management, etc. as long as you get your
naming conventions right to keep them separate. Set it up with a Library
Manager and then you won't be wasting HBAs or tapes in the scratch pool.
The only downside is all the TSM instances in a single AIX instance have
to be at the exact same TSM release level.

So a strategy that might serve your client well into the future could be
to set up two LPARs, one with TSM 5.5, and the other with TSM 6.X. This
only wastes one set of HBAs etc. A Library Manager must be at the same
or higher release level than all of its Library Clients. You could set
up the Library Manager as the first TSM 6 instance in the TSM 6 LPAR,
which could then allow for an orderly future migration of all instances
to TSM 6. We currently have a 6.2 Library Manager serving a mix of 6.2
and 5.5 Library Clients. This is how we are migrating to TSM 6 - Library
Manager first.

xinetd can solve your port 1500 collisions. All you need is separate
NICs. The users continue to specify port 1500, but xinetd can change
that to 1501, 1502, 9997... within AIX so that each goes to the intended
TSM server image. We do this on one AIX system that hosts two TSM 5.5
instances, and on another that hosts two TSM 6.2 instances. Just beware
of how much CPU xinetd can consume with the heavy net traffic of TSM
backups, however CPU cycles may not be an issue on that new P7 machine.

Roger Deschner  University of Illinois at Chicago rog...@uic.edu
==I have not lost my mind -- it is backed up on tape somewhere.=




On Tue, 24 Jan 2012, Steve Harris wrote:

>Hi All
>
>I'm involved in a consolidation exercise of a TSM environment that has
>"just growed" over the last 15 years, and features multiple TSM 5.5
>servers running on AIX on various P4 and P5 hardware.  These are to be
>moved, with as few changes as possible, to new P7 hardware, at a new
>data centre.  I'm also under the pump to get this done because of the
>contract ending with the old data centre.
>
>Migration to TSM 6 would take too long and is outside my brief. Because
>of the unplanned server sprawl, most of the servers use port 1500, and I
>don't have time to visit all the clients to update them to use a
>different port. Also, given that the new hardware is so much better than
>the old, it seems a waste to have two disk and two tape HBA ports
>dedicated to each server in its own LPAR. So, I've hit on the idea of a
>reasonably large TSM LPAR with the instances running in WPARS inside it.
>
>Is anyone running TSM 5 in WPARS?  I'm interested in any problems you
>might have had, war stories, gotchas, and also any "yep works fine for
>me" reports.
>
>
>Many Thanks
>
>
>Steve
>
>Steven Harris
>TSM Admin, Canberra Australia.
>

Re: TSM in AIX WPARS

[Shawn Drew]

Another link to peruse

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/display/tivolistoragemanager/Does+TSM+V6.1+support+IO+through+AIX+VIOS


TSM Server in a VIO will technically work, but not supported.

Regards,
Shawn

Shawn Drew





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No, you've not, I completely missed that technote.

On 25 jan. 2012, at 11:13, Steven Langdale wrote:

> Remco
>
> Am I missreading this technote:
> http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21461901
>
> That is saying virtual NPIV adapters are OK.
>
> Original Message-
>> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf
Of
>> Remco Post
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 3:20 PM
>> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
>> Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM in AIX WPARS
>>
>> I don't think there are any major issues, but if you need access to
tape
>> drives you must have physical HBA's in each WPAR if you want to run an
>> officially supported configuration. Virtual HBA's work, but are not
>> officially supported, so if you run into any issues you might be on
your
>> own.
>>
>>

--
Met vriendelijke groeten/Kind Regards,

Remco Post
r.p...@plcs.nl
+31 6 248 21 622



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Re: TSM in AIX WPARS

[Richard Rhodes]

We use VIO/NPIV based tape drives for a bunch of storage agents.  Once
setup and working it works well.  We ran into several bumps along the
road:

1)  We had to double the vio server memory (1g to 2gb I think).
2)  We had to patch VIO to a newer level.
3)  There are limits to the number of tape drives you can define in a lpar
this way.  I'm thiniking 62 or so - don't remember exactly.  It's a limit
on scsi targets.  Every tape drives is a separate scsi target.
4)  I also think there is a total limit on scsi targets across all lpars
defined to a vio based hba.
5)  Learning about how vio handles targets and how to clear them.  To
clear/reset the vio targets you have to drop the fcs adapter in the lpar.
Delete/recreating a rmt devcie in the lpar doesn't do it.

We've still had problems with loosing  npiv WWN's.  Somehow the vio
mappings have got lost such that we had to get all new wwn's in the lpar.
To say the least this caused pain!

Rick




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To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Date:   01/25/2012 05:14 AM
Subject:Re: TSM in AIX WPARS
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Remco

Am I missreading this technote:
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21461901

That is saying virtual NPIV adapters are OK.

Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of
> Remco Post
> Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 3:20 PM
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM in AIX WPARS
>
> I don't think there are any major issues, but if you need access to tape
> drives you must have physical HBA's in each WPAR if you want to run an
> officially supported configuration. Virtual HBA's work, but are not
> officially supported, so if you run into any issues you might be on your
> own.
>
>




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Re: Windsows 2008 failover cluster, SQL Server and TSM

[Howard Coles]

There are a few steps you have to take to make sure this works:
1. install the TDP on both nodes of the cluster (in the same directory path on 
each box).
2.  Setup the dsm.opt file in a directory on a clustered disk.
3.  run the TDP and initialize the password in the registry. (and make sure 
it's going to work)
4.  install the TDP service using something like this for the command line:
dsmcutil inst /name:"TSM TDP SqlSchedule Cluster -CL-SQL" 
/node:-CL-SQL /password:whatever /autostart:no 
/clientdir:"c:\Program Files\Tivoli\TSM\baclient" /optfile:"Q:\TSM\SQL\dsm.opt"
5.  Fail over to the other node and again install the services with the exact 
same parameters.
6.  Add the generic service to your Fail over cluster Group, and test.
Make sure to add the registry key to be replicated:
SOFTWARE\IBM\ADSM\CurrentVersion\Nodes\-CL-SQL\TSMSERVER1
Then set the options to have the generic service NOT cause a failover 
if it can't run.

Of course have the clusternode yes, and other cluster options setup in the 
dsm.opt file.

I have several of these setup, and they fail over and back pretty well.  There 
was a version of the TDP/BA client that would "eat" the password and then fail 
to start the scheduler, but I think that has been fixed in latter versions.

See Ya'
Howard Coles Jr.
John 3:16!


-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Bill 
Boyer
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 8:59 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Windsows 2008 failover cluster, SQL Server and TSM

Windows 2008 R2 failover cluster with SQL as a resource. All the cluster
disks are "owned" by the SQL resource. I need to install a client scheduler
for the cluster backups. The documentation for doing that is assuming you
will just be doing backups of the cluster drives and adding the generic
resource you add the cluster drives so it all fails over together.



I need to make it so that the generic service is part of the SQL resource
and gets failed over with that. Anyone out there done this type of
configuration? I have the generic service installed and the TDP SQL backups
run fine, but last night the SQL resource failed over and my service didn't.
Have failed SQL backups this morning.



If I try to add a generic service to the SQL resource, it doesn't appear to
give me the option to replicate registry keys.



Any help would be appreciated.



Bill Boyer
DSS, Inc.
(610) 927-4407
"Enjoy life. It has an expiration date." - ??
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Re: Windsows 2008 failover cluster, SQL Server and TSM

[Howard Coles]

Oh, I forgot about the lack of replicate.  Not sure what would cause the 
registry key replication to be grayed over, I've never seen that in a cluster 
that didn't have other more serious issues.


See Ya'
Howard Coles Jr.
John 3:16!


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Christian Svensson
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 9:35 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] SV: Windsows 2008 failover cluster, SQL Server and TSM

Have you put the dsm.opt file on the cluster disk?
And have you recognize the password registry key?

Best Regards
Christian Svensson

Cell: +46-70-325 1577
E-mail: christian.svens...@cristie.se
Supported Platform for CPU2TSM:: 
http://www.cristie.se/cpu2tsm-supported-platforms


Från: Bill Boyer [bjdbo...@comcast.net]
Skickat: den 25 januari 2012 15:58
Till: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Ämne: Windsows 2008 failover cluster, SQL Server and TSM

Windows 2008 R2 failover cluster with SQL as a resource. All the cluster
disks are "owned" by the SQL resource. I need to install a client scheduler
for the cluster backups. The documentation for doing that is assuming you
will just be doing backups of the cluster drives and adding the generic
resource you add the cluster drives so it all fails over together.



I need to make it so that the generic service is part of the SQL resource
and gets failed over with that. Anyone out there done this type of
configuration? I have the generic service installed and the TDP SQL backups
run fine, but last night the SQL resource failed over and my service didn't.
Have failed SQL backups this morning.



If I try to add a generic service to the SQL resource, it doesn't appear to
give me the option to replicate registry keys.



Any help would be appreciated.



Bill Boyer
DSS, Inc.
(610) 927-4407
"Enjoy life. It has an expiration date." - ??
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TSM 5.5 and AIX 7.1

[Ochs, Duane]

Good day,
Has anyone attempted to run TSM server 5.5 on AIX 7.1 ?
I see the supported OS list for 5.5 indicates 6.1, which is currently 
installed, but I assume testing of 5.5 on 7.1 is outside the product scope.

Any experiences would be appreciated.
Thanks


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Export / Import of NDMP Data

[Christian Svensson]

 Hi,
I got a situations where a customer wants to export NDMP data out from TSM and 
maybe later import it to the same or another TSM Server.
They are running today TSM 6.2.3.0 on Windows and the NDMP data are NetApp 
Dumps based on 8.0.1 and 7.3.5.1

My question is, has anyone successfully been exporting and importing NDMP from 
one TSM Server to another TSM server?


Best Regards
Christian Svensson

Cell: +46-70-325 1577
E-mail: christian.svens...@cristie.se
Supported Platform for CPU2TSM:: 
http://www.cristie.se/cpu2tsm-supported-platforms

Re: Export / Import of NDMP Data

[Erwann Simon]

Hi Christian,

To be honest, I haven't ever tried to do as documentation is pretty clear about 
this :
"You cannot export nodes of type NAS; export processing excludes these nodes." 
(from admin reference, regarding export node command).


- Mail original -
De: "Christian Svensson" 
À: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Envoyé: Jeudi 26 Janvier 2012 08:10:34
Objet: [ADSM-L] Export / Import of NDMP Data

 Hi,
I got a situations where a customer wants to export NDMP data out from TSM and 
maybe later import it to the same or another TSM Server.
They are running today TSM 6.2.3.0 on Windows and the NDMP data are NetApp 
Dumps based on 8.0.1 and 7.3.5.1

My question is, has anyone successfully been exporting and importing NDMP from 
one TSM Server to another TSM server?


Best Regards
Christian Svensson

Cell: +46-70-325 1577
E-mail: christian.svens...@cristie.se
Supported Platform for CPU2TSM:: 
http://www.cristie.se/cpu2tsm-supported-platforms