Fun with RHEL 6 patch and bonded 10GbE Emulex Adapter

On Thursday we patched Red Hat Linux 6 on our TSM server, bringing it to 2.6.32-696.el6.ppc64. That night we discovered that our bonded 10GbE Ethernet Emulex ports had not come back into service after the patching. 90% of our clients use the 10GbE interfaces and the TSM server began reporting

Best Practices/Best Performance SP/TSM B/A Client Settings ?

I've looked at the IBM Blueprint documents but may have missed what I was looking for - the Best Practices for Best Performance for TSM B/A client settings.As we move from 6.4 to 7.x or 8.x clients before the 6.4 EOL, we are looking to test with the current client settings optimized for thin

Thanks Del!

Del, Thanks for your clarifications about the 8.1 client's support for running in a VM and Solaris. Ben Alford IT Manager, Office of Information Technology Systems: Shared Services The University of Tennessee

TSM 8.1 Support for Solaris??

Please clarify the following sentence in the IBM web site: What's new for Version 8.1: The following operating systems are no longer supported by the backup-archive client: * Solaris SPARC operating systems. You can still use the IBM Spectrum Protect API on Solaris SPARC operating systems

8.1 Client Backup/Archive Backup/Archive discontinued in Virtual Environment??

The IBM site: www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEQVQ_8.1.0/client/r_new_for_version.html says: Discontinued functions The following functions are discontinued in this release: Virtual machine operations on

Re: RFE: Node custom information user field

Conny, Thank you! I have just voted for this RFE. With such a field we would be able to store our internal billing account number for each TSM node. Ben Alford University of Tennessee -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Conny Land

Re: missing dsmlicense

Andi, It seems it would make this easier for the customers if IBM included the license with the newer levels (which are recommended for download), so that IBM's base level issue becomes irrelevant.It would simplify this for our users for sure! Ben Alford University of Tennessee -Origin

Re: When can too many disk volumes be detrimental

If you never move ANYthing else to Flash, move the TSM DB there. As someone else mentioned, it is like a religious experience. Our expirations went from 3 hours to 10 minutes. Ben Alford  IT Manager, Office of Information Technology The University of Tennessee -Original Message- Fro

Re: Activate SKLM on existing TS3500 partition

ADSM folk - we have interested in tape encryption too but have not yet started. Since our drives are only used by TSM, what are the pros/cons of using SKLM vs. the free TSM application support for encryption? Ben Alford University of Tennessee -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor

Re: req: tsm db backup completed with failure and taking all scratch tapes fro DB BC

Here is the error msg that TSM generates with a defective tape drive (or media) : Message ANR8778W Scratch volume 343UTLL3 changed to Private Status to prevent re-access. Tape robots are fast. Ours marked all 134 of our tapes as Private at a rate upwards of 5 per minute on a weekend overnight

Re: req: tsm db backup completed with failure and taking all scratch tapes fro DB BC

Note that it only takes one malfunctioning tape drive to use up all TSM scratch tapes quickly. It happened to us several years ago where one malfunctioning drive caused over one hundred scratch tapes to be marked private overnight. We were monitoring on low scratch tape counts but not this pa

TSM Export / Import to FC SAN Disk?

We need to copy backup data for two nodes from our old TSM server to our new one. These nodes have retention policies of seven years, so we think export/import is the way to go. The old and new TSM servers are on the same FC network and we have defined a large 2 TB file on the FC SAN. The o