Re: FW: v7 upgrade woes

[Robert J Molerio]

When they first incorporated DB2 into TSM IBM used to have a dedicated DB2
support group to help with these issues. I'm wondering if they were let go
during the last IBM purge?

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On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 9:43 AM, Rhodes, Richard L. <
rrho...@firstenergycorp.com> wrote:

> Ahhh, the joy of IBM support!
>
> We are stuck in between the narrow IBM support silos.
>
> TSM support sees that the db2 database isn't working after an upgrade test
> and sent the case to DB2 support.
> DB2 support says the database got a "already in use" error of some kind
> and wants to know what else is running. DB2 support has no idea what TSM is
> or that a TSM upgrade does.
>
> We need someone who knows TSM, the upgrade process, DB2 and all this on
> AIX.  But IBM support is incapable of having someone who crosses their
> narrow boundaries.  It seems our only way out is to either up this case to
> a Sev 1 or declare a CRITSIT and force IBM to get multiple areas involved.
>
> We are SO frustrated.  Sometimes I wonder if the people inside IBM who use
> TSM have to use the same TSM support we do.
>
> Rick
>
>
>
>
> From: Rhodes, Richard L.
> Sent: Friday, June 10, 2016 10:59 AM
> To: 'ADSM: Dist Stor Manager' 
> Subject: FW: v7 upgrade woes
>
> We've been testing . . . we tried walking all the upgrades:
>
> - brought up a 6.3.5 tsm db
> - tried upgrade to 7.1.4, it failed/hung (yup, responds like all our tests)
> - restored snapshots back to the 6.3.5 setup
> - tried upgrade v7.1- WORKED, TSM comes up fine
> - tried upgrade to v7.1.1.1 - upg utility said there was nothing to
> upgrade!
> - tried upgrade to v7.3 - Upgrade worked, but TSM hangs on startup
>
> The v7.3 upgrade installed just fine and the upgrade utility ended.  But
> when we try to start TSM it just sits there hung.  While TSM is sitting
> there "hung" trying to come up, we do a "ps -ef | grep db2" and found that
> DB2 was NOT UP. (should have checked that sooner!)
>
>   ps -ef | egrep -i "db2|dsm"
> tsmuser 12910806 14221316   0 10:26:23  pts/4  0:00
> /opt/tivoli/tsm/server/bin/dsmserv -i /tsmdata/tsmsap1/config
> tsmuser 17432632 12910806   0 10:26:24  pts/4  0:00 db2set -i tsmuser
> DB2_PMODEL_SETTINGS
>root 199885461   0 09:55:59  -  0:00
> /opt/tivoli/tsm/db2/bin/db2fmcd
>
>
> You can leave the TSM startup "hung" like this for hours and it never goes
> any further.
>
> We keep digging.  Support sent us to the DB2 team, hopefully they can help.
>
> Rick
>
>
>
>
>
> From: Rhodes, Richard L.
> Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2016 3:32 PM
> To: 'ADSM: Dist Stor Manager'  ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU>>
> Cc: Ake, Elizabeth K.  a...@firstenergycorp.com>>
> Subject: v7 upgrade woes
>
> This is half plea for help and half rant (grr).
>
> For the past two months we've been trying to test a TSM v6.3.5 to
> v7.1.4/v7.1.5 upgrade . . . . and have completely failed!
>
> TSM v6.3.5
> AIX 6100-09
> upgrade to TSM v7.1.4 and/or v7.1.5
>
> When we run the upgrade it runs to this status message:
> Installing: [(99%) com.tivoli.dsm.server.db2.DB2PostInstall ]
> Then it sits, doing nothing.  AIX sees no db2 activity, no java activity,
> no nothing.  It sits for hours!  We've let it sit once for 13 hours
> (overnight) and the above message was still there.  Eventually we kill it.
>
> We've tried:
>   two separate AIX systems
>   two separate TSM's (one 400gb db and one 100gb db)
>   probably tried 8-10 upgrades, all failed
>
> Support had us try a DB2 standalone upgrade and it also never finished.
>
> We've worked with support and got nowhere.  They have no idea what is
> happening, let alone any idea of how to figure out what is happening.  They
> did find one issue - we have to install a base XLC runtime v13.1.0.0 before
> the v7 upgrade.
>
> Any thoughts are welcome.
>
> Rick
>
>
>
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Re: Spectrum Protect support for I series

[Robert J Molerio]

Start using BRMS?

On Jul 29, 2016 6:22 AM, "Chavdar Cholev"  wrote:

> Yeap,
> very strange strategy I have customers that need this
>
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 12:52 PM, Saravanan Palanisamy <
> evergreen.sa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Just noticed that TSM support has been withdrawn for IBM i on TSM 6.2 ,
> Is
> > this confirmed and latest Spectrum Protect version doesn't support IBM i
> ?
> >
> >
> > With the EOS of TSM 6.2, access to TSM Servers through the TSM API on
> IBM i
> > will also reach EOS. TSM 6.2 is the *last *version of TSM that will
> support
> > IBM i. *No further versions of TSM will have API support for IBM i.*
> >
> >
> >
> https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/IBM%20Backup%2C%20Recovery%20and%20Media%20Services%20%28BRMS%29%20for%20i/page/Tivoli%20Storage%20Manager%20%28TSM%29
> >
> >
> >
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Re: AIX to Linux migration performance

[Robert J Molerio]

I thought that functionality was long gone in 5.x?



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On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 11:43 AM, Bill Mansfield <
bill.mansfi...@us.logicalis.com> wrote:

> Has anyone migrated a big TSM server from AIX to Linux using the
> Extract/Insert capability in 7.1.5?  Have a 2.5TB DB to migrate, would like
> some idea of how long it might take.
>
> Bill Mansfield
>

Re: IBM reneges on Enhanced support policy for TSM 6.4?

[Robert J Molerio]

No wonder TSM customers have been migrating to other solutions.

On Sep 17, 2016 15:09, "Schofield, Neil (Storage & Middleware, Backup &
Restore)"  wrote:

> Classification: Public
>
> I always thought IBM's 'Enhanced' support policy was supposed to guarantee
> customers a *minimum* of 5 years support from the GA date of a product
> version.
>
> Was anyone else surprised to see the recent announcement that TSM 6.4
> customers will be cut adrift after only 4 years and 10 months?
> http://www.ibm.com/software/support/lifecycleapp/PLCDetail.wss?synkey=
> V649976C05962P29-Z752595R47563G59-C915146G66275T24
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>
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Re: ANR8420E messages

[Robert J Molerio]

Ditto. TSm development isn't what it used to be.

On 5/26/11, Thomas Denier  wrote:
> -David E Ehresman wrote: -
>
>>My guess is there is a problem talking to the library controller.  I
>>would try setting the library path offline and then online.
>
> Setting the library path offline and online didn't help. Deleting
> and recreating the library path also didn't help. At that point I
> decided to make sure the itdt test was still working. I ran that
> test from my personal Linux account, and it failed with a message
> indicating a permissions problem. I rapidly discovered that the
> /dev/IBMtape0 special file allowed read and write access for owner
> and group, and that neither my personal account nor the one used
> to run the TSM server code was the owning user or belonged to the
> owning group. I presume that the co-worker who ran itdt
> successfully yesterday was logged on as root at the time. Once
> the permissions were fixed I had no trouble defining the path to
> the drive. We are still trying to figure out how to ensure that
> the permissions will be correct after a reboot.
>
> If the TSM developers had written decent error reporting code
> I could have diagnosed the problem in two minutes rather than
> two days.

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Re: linux client and TSM gui

[Robert J Molerio]

If that dosent work try dsmj after exporting your display variable.

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Tim Brown  wrote:

> Is there a way to run a TSM GUI session on Linux, I am able to run the
> command line interface.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
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Re: TSM 6 for z/OS

[Robert J Molerio]

I checked about a year ago and the answer was NO.

On 6/11/11, Mehdi Salehi  wrote:
> Hi,
> Has IBM any plan to release TSM 6 for MVS?
>
> Thank you.
>

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Re: TSM 6 for z/OS

[Robert J Molerio]

Not much use if you want to stay with zOS
You will not be able to use existing FICON to tape drive connections.
You would have to use FCP to tape in order to make it work. Not much
of a migration path IMHO.

On 6/11/11, Remco Post  wrote:
> But, IIRC the good news is that TSM 6 for zLinux can now at least read (and
> maybe write?) tapes written by TSM 5 on zOS, so you have a migration path.
>
> On 11 jun 2011, at 16:19, Robert J Molerio wrote:
>
>> I checked about a year ago and the answer was NO.
>>
>> On 6/11/11, Mehdi Salehi  wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> Has IBM any plan to release TSM 6 for MVS?
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>>
>>
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Re: TSM 6 for z/OS

[Robert J Molerio]

It means if you want to utilize the robust features of system z tape
management system (DFSMS) you probably would need to replace TSM on
zOS with a backup sution that uses FICON. FDR/UPSTREAM or something
like that.

On 6/11/11, Mehdi Salehi  wrote:
> This implicitly means that we should use TSM 6.2 for open systems and have a
> separate island for MVS based on TSM 5.5.
> Does the incompatibility between FCP and FICON have any issue with library
> sharing between TSM for AIX and TSM for MVS? Let's say TSM 6.2 for AIX is
> defined as library manager and TSM 5.5 for z/OS as library client.
>
> Thank you.
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Re: TSM 6 for z/OS

[Robert J Molerio]

So can you publish the presentation url?

On 6/11/11, Tomasz Hubicki  wrote:
> I saw an IBM presentation, which describes new TSM element to be released in
> 2H 2011 - TSM for z/OS media:
> - Receives/sends data from/to TSM v6 server
> - Performs I/O to tape and/or sequential disk
> - Supports same storage devices as z/OS server, including non-IBM hardware
> - Interacts with z/OS DFSMS and TMS exactly as TSM z/OS server
>
> Regards,
>
> Tomasz Hubicki
>
> W dniu 2011-06-11 16:53, Mehdi Salehi pisze:
>> This implicitly means that we should use TSM 6.2 for open systems and have
>> a
>> separate island for MVS based on TSM 5.5.
>> Does the incompatibility between FCP and FICON have any issue with library
>> sharing between TSM for AIX and TSM for MVS? Let's say TSM 6.2 for AIX is
>> defined as library manager and TSM 5.5 for z/OS as library client.
>>
>> Thank you.
>

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Re: tape encryption in TSM environment

[Robert J Molerio]

Yes but you need to use TKLM or its MF equiv to be of value unless you
use an appliiance.

On 6/11/11, Mehdi Salehi  wrote:
> Hi,
> Tape volumes canned be accessed if there is no TSM database. If happens,
> restoring the database and gaining access to data seem to be very difficult
> (at least for me ;) ). Do you think encryption feature of tape drives has
> any value in TSM environments?
>
> Thank you,
> Mehdi
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Re: TSM 6 for z/OS

[Robert J Molerio]

I would consider migrating to FDR/UPSTREAM in that regard.

On 6/11/11, Mehdi Salehi  wrote:
>> An open TSM server can very happily work with a z/OS TSM client.
>> There are TSM version 6 clients for z/OS, just not the server.
> Maybe that client is just for Unix System Services. What I mean is a full
> support LAN-free backup for DB2 on z.
>
> Thank you.
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Re: tape encryption in TSM environment

[Robert J Molerio]

ekm encryption is negligible. not sure about tklm. any takers on that?

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 12:13 AM, Mehdi Salehi  wrote:

> How much performance degradation would there if encryption is on? Although
> it is the duty of drive itself (I suppose), it might have negative
> influence
> on backup and even restore performance?
>

Re: Increase speed of TDP Exchange Backups

[Robert J Molerio]

are you using any deduplication feature on your vtl?

On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 9:49 PM, Leonard, Matthew <
matthew.leon...@atlasair.com> wrote:

> Our exchange backups (Doing Full) are a little under 4.0 TB and they are
> taking 14 hours.  We are using a Virtual Tape library and the bandwidth is
> great, however they are just taking way to long.  I also increased the
> Amount to 5 for each exchange node as we have 120 drives.  Does anyone have
> any ideas of how I can increase the duration of these exchange backups?  Any
> help would be much appreciated.  Thanks in advance
>
> Matthew J. Leonard
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Re: [adsm] Re: TSM 6.x and HADR

[Robert J Molerio]

Are there any tested proceedural steps to using this feature?

There doesn't seem to anything in the IBM Technical Library.

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Lloyd Dieter wrote:

> I've been playing with this recently...as Daniel indicated, it's pretty
> easy to set up.
>
> db2pd -hadr -db tsmdb1
>
> Run from either the primary or secondary will give the status of the
> connection, and which log files it's working on.
>
> Failing over from primary -> secondary is also straight forward.  Where
> I ran into a problem was trying to fail back...that didn't seem to be as
> easy.
>
> I don't recall the exact steps, but I think what I did was to stop DB2
> on both the primary and secondary, then restart DB2 and HADR on the
> secondary as standby.
>
> On the primary, I tried to start HADR as primary, and it wouldn't start.
>  I wound up doing a "db2 rollforward db tsmdb1 to end of logs and
> complete", after which it came back up, and I was able to get it to
> resume its role as primary.
>
> -Lloyd
>
>
>
> On 06/15/2011 10:51 AM, Prather, Wanda wrote:
>
>> I'm interested in hearing from folks using it.
>>
>> > From the presentation, I am uneasy at all the cmd-line DB2 setup
>> commands required to use it, and wonder if it's suitable for a shop with no
>> in-house DB2 expertise.
>>
>> Once it's set up, how much time/expertise does it take to monitor/manage
>> it?
>> In fact, how do you monitor it at all?
>>
>>
>>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of
>> Steven Langdale
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 3:19 AM
>> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
>> Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM 6.x and HADR
>>
>>  I might be hijacking the thread (excuse me) so I'll change the subject
>>> too.
>>> Is there already an official announcement of TSM 6.x and replicating
>>> the database by means of HADR?
>>>
>>> It is supported:
>>>
>> https://www-304.ibm.com/**support/docview.wss?uid=**swg27021382&wv=1
>> But it aint free, you have to purchase a DB2EE license for it.
>>
>> As for who is using it, I'm sure I recall someone on the mail list was
>> doing it a few weeks back.
>>
>> Steven
>>
>>

Re: paths going offline from library manager (in this 3 library clients paths are going offline)

[Robert J Molerio]

Check if your drives are zoned properly ( I assume) you are using a SAN to
connect your TSM server to your library.

On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Yuvaraja Shivarama <
yuvaraja.dee...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Any body know what could be the problem if the paths are going offline
> very frequently from library manager.
>
>
> aix-5.5
>
> the paths which are going offline are library clients in that library
> manager.
>
> there is no much drives going offline.
>
> no rmt mismatch found and no other issues from server end.
>
> Thanks
> Yuvaraja
>

Re: Technical Exchange Series Webinars

[Robert J Molerio]

I experienced that same issue.

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Dave Canan  wrote:

> Let me pose this to the listserv here. Are others also having this problem
> when listening the to Technical Exchange sessions? If this is isolated to
> just Thomas then it might be an issue on his side. If there are multiple
> people here, please let me know and I can bring it to the attention of the
> group that hosts these. Please let me know.
>
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Thomas Denier <
> thomas.den...@jeffersonhospital.org> wrote:
>
> > -Dave Canan wrote: -
> >
> > >Thomas, I can follow up with this. Do you have some specific examples
> > >of some webinars that were bad recording quality? Let me knoiw via the
> > >list, or you can also send me an email to my work ID at
> > >ddca...@us.ibm.com.
> >
> > I had trouble with the webinar on using HADR to replicate the TSM
> > Version 6 database. I don't see how recording quality could be an
> > issue, since I was listening to the presentation in real time
> > rather than listening to a recording later on. As I recall, the
> > webinar started with a moderator introducing the main speaker.
> > The introduction started off with poor but not intolerable audio
> > quality and gradually deteriorated until I recognize about one
> > word in five. I hung around to see if things would get better when
> > the main speaker started. The audio quality did not improve when the
> > main speaker started. I gave up on listening to the presentation
> > and settled for reviewing the slides.
>

Re: New 6.2 servers

[Robert J Molerio]

Are these single or multi-instance TSM server builds?

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Huebner,Andy,FORT WORTH,IT <
andy.hueb...@alconlabs.com> wrote:

> Does anyone have any "under documented" tuning tips for TSM 6.2 on AIX?  We
> are going to build new systems next week.
>
> AIX 6.1
> P6 - 2 CPU 32GB RAM
> TSM 6.2.?
> Any SAN disk config I want. (within reason)
>
> All SAN disks are RAID 5 thin provisioned.
> Should I split the DB onto multiple drives?  (TSM 5.4 DB is 165GB @ 70%
> used)
> Separate log drive, but how big?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Andy Huebner
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Re: Anyone using Power Mobility for TSM environment?

[Robert J Molerio]

I think you may be the first shop to attempt this. Good luck!

On 8/17/11, Nancy L Leugemors  wrote:
> Hello TSMers,
>
> Is anyone using AIX power mobility for their TSM environment with hba's
> for disk and all tsm traffic using the network to a NFS(Dat Domain
> appliance)?
>
>  We currently have our tsm server on it's own P550, physical server and
> have embraced virtualization and would like to put a new server in a
> virtualized environment.
>
> We recently created a new TSM server to test the new DB2 version of  TSM
> 6.2.3.0 and also to provide some relief for our current TSM production
> environment.   The new server is AIX oslevel 7.1 and we just installed TSM
> 6.2.3.0 on it.
>
> Thank You,
>
>
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Re: TSM V5 TDP installed with TSM V6 backup client

[Robert J Molerio]

Just follow the tdp 5.5 install steps in the TDP redbook.

On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Bob Booth  wrote:

> We are attempting to install TSM TDP V5 for Oracle on a Linux system that
> has
> the V6 BA client on it.  Is this combination even possible, as it seems
> there
> is a conflict in the V6 installed API, and the one that comes with the V5
> TDP?  We also don't have Java installed on our production machines so we
> have
> to bypass the Java based installer.
>
> Has anyone done this installation?   Any hints or tips?
>
> Thanks for any help you can provide!
>
> bob
>

Re: How to migrate 3592-E05 formatted tapes to 3592-E06 format

[Robert J Molerio]

update the device class . see help update devclass

On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Keith Arbogast wrote:

> We are buying some 3592-E06 drives to replace the 3592-E05 drives in our
> 3584 tape libraries. The goal is to store more TB on the cartridges we
> already have. The 3592-E06 drives can read the E05 format, but they will
> write in E05 format too unless the tapes are re-formatted in the E06 format.
> So, we are wondering how best to migrate the E05 formatted tapes to the E06
> format.
>
> When we add the E06 drives we will remove the E05 drives.
>
> Is this just a matter of; 1) reclaim the E05 tapes, 2) checkout the scratch
> tapes returned from reclamation, 3) 'label libv overwrite=yes' the just
> checked-out tapes.
>
> Or, is there a simpler, more efficient way to do this? Would new storage
> pools help in the transition?
>
> With my thanks,
> Keith Arbogast

Re: How to migrate 3592-E05 formatted tapes to 3592-E06 format

[Robert J Molerio]

Yes.

But to be sure open up a ticket with TSM support to verify this. We did this
using TSM v 6.2.x and it worked fine.

On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Keith Arbogast  wrote:

> Robert et al;
> Will updating the device class make the new drives write files to tapes in
> E06 format which have previously been formatted and written to in E05
> format? Filling volumes would then have a mixture of E05 and E06 formats.
> Will TSM do that?  Are the device drivers, or what not, smart enough to read
> tape content of mixed formats without a hiccup?
>
> Thank you,
> Keith
>
>
>

Re: lanfree 6.3 using proxy option

[Robert J Molerio]

Carlo,

Since you used lanfreecommmethod tcpip, I assume the datya flows from the
tsm client to the storage agent proxy via he network correct?


On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 4:36 AM, Carlo Zanelli <
carlo.zane...@regione.veneto.it> wrote:

> Hmmm...
> Ok, well..
>
> Step 1: Set up a server with StorageAgent
>
> Step 2: Install ba client on the other servers, and insert in dsm.sys the
> following lines:
>
> enablelanfree   yes
> lanfreecommmethod   tcpip
> lanfreetcpserveraddress IP_STORAGE_AGENT_PROXY
> lanfreetcpport  PORT_STORAGE_AGENT_PROXY
> COMMmethod  TCPip
>
> Step 3: On TSM server execute for every client to be proxyed: validate
> lanfree node_name storage_agent_name
>
> Launche a backup test and verify with storage_agent_name: q se
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Kindly,
>
> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of
> Ben Bullock
> Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 2:51 AM
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] lanfree 6.3 using proxy option
>
> Lol... telling him, "Works very well" doesn’t exactly help him with the
> steps on how to set it up.
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of
> Carlo Zanelli
> Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 3:04 PM
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] lanfree 6.3 using proxy option
>
> Hi Bob,
>
> Works very well.
>  I have 15 nodes proxied by one.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> -Original Message-
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of
> Bob Molerio
> Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 10:48 PM
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Subject: [ADSM-L] lanfree 6.3 using proxy option
>
> Anyone know to set this up
> ? The manual doesn't elaborate on how this done.
>
> --
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>
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Re: TS3500 ALMS question..

[Robert J Molerio]

Well,

I have 5 TSM instances living in the same LPAR and all the drives are
defined to all TSM instances. Library sharing is turned on.

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Jorge Amil  wrote:

> Hello,
> I´m not sure about it.
> Meaby,in the same logical partition, you must define X drives for TSM1 and
> the others for TSM2.
> Where i work whe have two tsm servers but server 1 is the library manager
> of server2.
>
> Let´s wait for other colleagues answers.
>
> Jorge
>
> > Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 05:15:08 -0800
> > From: fmol...@yahoo.com
> > Subject: [ADSM-L] TS3500 ALMS question..
> > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> >
> > Hello colleagues,
> >
> > Is it possible to use drives and slots for two TSM Servers in a logical
> same partition in a TS3500 with ALMS feature ??
> >
> > Thanks
> > Fran
>
>

Re: AIX vs Linux 2012

[Robert J Molerio]

I have to agree with Paul.
If you don't mind supporting TSM on Linux then try it.
I can tell you this, alot will depend on how well IBM will support TSM on
Linux.
You didn't mention how many TSM instances you are supporting on AIX.
If you want to compare notes send me a note offline.



On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Paul Zarnowski  wrote:

> When comparing systems, I would use benchmarks suitable for transactional
> DB systems.  Power7 systems have 4 VPUs per CPU, which really makes a
> difference.  Also look at how many I/O cards you will need, etc.  A big
> factor is what you're most comfortable with.
>
> At 12:34 PM 4/20/2012, Shawn Drew wrote:
> >I know this has been discussed in various forms over the years, but I'm
> >specifically wondering about the current state of hardware
> >I have a long history with TSM on AIX.  It's stable, familiar and an I/O
> >powerhouse.  Our Unix admins also favor AIX for serious, heavy-duty
> >workloads.
> >
> >We are looking at refreshing our largest P570 now.  I discussed this with
> >our unix admin, who also has a very high opinion of IBM.  He said that
> >current SandyBridge implementations can really make Linux a contender in
> >terms of I/O and CPU performance.  And at about 1/7th the cost.
> >
> >I normally dismiss Linux because I was under the impression that you would
> >need many inexpensive servers to equal one P-series for I/O.  It wouldn't
> >be worth it with the added management of dealing with multiple TSM
> >Servers.  Now with DB2, TSM seems to be going more towards the monolithic
> >direction if anything.
> >But If I can get a single 32-core, 128GB ram intel server that can
> >actually push multiple 10gbe and 8gb FC interfaces I am finding Linux a
> >little more attractive.
> >
> >Does anyone have any stories,  gotchas, or opinions with replacing a
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Re: Admin Center Issues

[Robert J Molerio]

Do yourself a favor and don't use the admin center.
Try a third party tool like StorServer Console, TSM Manager or just use the
command line.

Just came back from a TSM user group and saw ServerGraph which looks
promising.


On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Jim Neal  wrote:

> Hi All,
>
>
>
>I have been working off and on for about four months with
> IBM Tech support to resolve an issue with Admin Center and so far no luck!
> I am hoping there is one person in the world that can tell me why I can't
> get Admin Center 6.3 to function on a Windows 2008 R2 System.  I installed
> both the Reporting and Admin Center and there were no errors reported.
> However, when I open the Tivoli Integrated Portal, there is no option that
> says "Tivoli Storage Manager"  and nothing that looks anything like the
> online documentation.  I am at the end of my rope with this and would
> appreciate any assistance.   Thanks much!
>
>
>
>
>
>Jim Neal
>
>Sr. TSM Admin
>
>Storage and Backup Group
>
>U.C. Berkeley
>



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