We are currently using Azure blob storage for Spectrum Protect Plus offloading
and are looking to start using it for Cloud Tiering on Spectrum Protect but we
want to use the soft delete function to give the cloud copy a measure of
immutability.
Are there any pitfalls to enabling the soft delete
Stor Manager" wrote on 03/01/2021
11:28:53 AM:
> From: Matthew McGeary
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Date: 03/01/2021 11:29 AM
> Subject: [EXTERNAL] WORM Azure blob for cloud container pool
> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"
>
> H
retention rules? Is it
possible or will it cause issues with either writing to the objects or cloud
container reclamation?
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similar (not to mention that
they're the same Windows version) that I'd be seeing much better dedup than
that. Compression is doing quite well, hovering at 2.7, but was hoping to at
least get 1.5 or 2 to 1 dedup.
Thanks and have a good weekend!
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wding out the vsnap server. Setting the
softcap based on the blueprints greatly improved overall throughput. Single VM
performance was up and overall throughput was in excess of 400 MBps.
So that goes to show, RTFM. 😉
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t would be
helpful.
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Yeah, you're right. I dug into OneProtect a bit this week and it only supports
B/A clients and backup objects.
So yep, only option is to do dumps to disk for the longer term backups.
Thanks
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Data C
? Is the new
retention function (One Protect) my best bet for this requirement?
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Good morning Hans,
Subfolders have never worked with the -vmfolder option, which has driven me
crazy for years. I gave up and went to cluster-level backups.
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Hey Zoltan,
I def all my nodes with maxnummp of 100. It's overkill, but repl sessions do
indeed count as mounts.
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-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist
Anders,
Thanks for the tip. I had thought I'd gotten the most recent client version
but I guess I didn't look too closely!
Installed the fixpack and the DB backup is running normally. Thanks!
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as closely as I could, and using the dsmcutil.exe provided with the
client to try and reset the DB backup node, but nothing has worked so far to
correct this issue.
Anyone else run into this problem?
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T: (30
required licensing to deploy plus.
On Mar 22, 2018, at 2:13 PM, Matthew McGeary
mailto:matthew.mcge...@nutrien.com>> wrote:
Strange, I was just in a product briefing and was informed that the stored data
in the Plus repository counted against the TB in our entitled capacity, not
this 10 VM/TB
orage.
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PotashCorp
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-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Loon,
Eric van (ITOPT3) - KLM
Sent: Wednesday, Novemb
I'm very interested about this as well, since we will have requirements for
one-many replication in the coming months.
Thanks,
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on, recovering from a DB2 backup or using the TSM
replication that you're ripping out. There may come a time when you do a DR
test or actual DR and your TSM database won't recover properly from that
crash-level snapshot. Then what do you do?
Why in god's name is this change happe
y use multiple sessions to increase throughput.
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-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf O
the 500-600 GB range, so we aren't
operating on the same scale as you are.
Del is right that this is only for 'legacy' backups, not for VSS-offloaded.
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T: (30
If you're using TDP for SQL you can specify how many stripes to use in the
tdpo.cfg file.
For our large SQL backups, I use 10 stripes.
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There is still no method for moving data from a directory based container pool
to another one.
I think your only option would be to replicate to another server, then
replicate back to the smaller pool.
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ever tried to decomm a node that is TB in size or one that contains
millions of objects.
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-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist St
the IOPS of the backing device. Your XIV system
should provide more than adequate IOPS, particularly since the new CONTAINER
class pools are much less IO intensive on the database and storage pool
filesystems than the old FILE class devices.
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Marco,
No, restore from the tape copy is not possible. That’s because the tape copy
is of the deduplicated pool itself, not the hydrated node data as with the
FILE-class dedup.
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raised the buffers high enough for the servers to
allocate an 8M window size.
Our before-dedup intake is around 15TB a day, which translates to around 1-2TB.
With two protect processes scheduled to run at 1:30 am and pm, they tend to
run to completion in 2-3 hours.
HTH
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ocedure is.
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Senior Technical Specialist - Infrastructure Management Services
PotashCorp
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-Original Message-
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of
Paul_Dudley
Sent: Monday, November 0
h, ANG-E13
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>
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> Matthew McGeary
> Sent: Thursday, September 29
you should have no issues. It ran smoothly
on all of our servers, from the smallest instance with ~10TB to our primary
server with ~250TB.
Regards,
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PotashCorp
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www
I bled hard and installed 7.1.5 while the paint was wet.
Compression was available on AIX concurrently with all other releases. WAN
acceleration, on the other hand, is not. Booo!
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ou're asking will be answered, along with
more.
Regards,
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From: "Michaud, Luc [Analyste principal - environnement AIX]"
To: ADSM-L@VM.M
n SQL system, so
is the TDP for SQL Server sufficient? For those of you that use the
DocAve product, what advantages does it provide over a straight SQL
backup?
Thanks!
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will always
fill the pipe until process completion. Then I cut a db backup to a local
disk and the server maintenance window is complete.
I don't use the forcerec command unless I see a replication error or
failed replication process.
Hope that helps,
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,
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From: "Pagnotta, Pamela (CONTR)"
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Date: 04/27/2016 07:47 AM
Subject:[ADSM-L] TSM Client upgrade on AIX
Sent by:"
sport site?
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From: "Rhodes, Richard L."
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Date: 04/06/2016 06:33 AM
Subject:[ADSM-L] missing dsmlicense
Sent b
ion savings are rated at
~400 GB, which is pretty impressive. I'm going to do a test restore today
and see how it performs but so far so good.
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PotashCorp
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From: PAC Brion Ar
are on the
horizon.
Hope that helps,
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PotashCorp
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From: Srikanth Kola23
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Date: 02/09/2016 03:49 PM
Subject:[ADSM-L] Reg: disk based LAN
re's a lot of
processing involved with large dedup workloads and we typically use all 10
of our allocated Power 8 cores just doing server-side dedupe.
Hope that helps,
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Technical Specialist - Infrastructure
PotashCorp
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www.potashco
Hello David,
I believe you can use the DSMI_DIR environment variable to specify the
location of the dsm.sys or opt files.
Regards,
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PotashCorp
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From: David Ehresman
To
le to service a
main office/branch model, where certain staff only have interest/rights to
see certain TSM workloads.
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PotashCorp
T: (306) 933-8921
www.potashcorp.com
From: Evan Dunn
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
e stored within the
hub server itself, there should be no conflicts.
I decided to give it whirl and added one of my satellite TSM servers to my
head office OC about ten minutes ago.
I'll let you know how it goes.
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Technical Specialist - Infrastr
list utilities as the TSM instance owner ID.
I've also seen locking messages due to an insufficiently high db2 LOCKLIST
parameter. This can be adjusted by following this note:
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21430874
Hope that helps,
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t to your daily operations.
Hope that helps,
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Technical Specialist - Infrastructure
PotashCorp
T: (306) 933-8921
www.potashcorp.com
From: Robert Ouzen
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Date: 07/24/2015 01:13 AM
Subject:[ADSM-L] RTC on DB SS
proxy node.
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Technical Specialist - Infrastructure
PotashCorp
T: (306) 933-8921
www.potashcorp.com
From: David Ehresman
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Date: 06/19/2015 09:52 AM
Subject:[ADSM-L] TSM VE 7.1.2 Mount Proxy Pairs
Sent by:"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager&quo
fills.
Regards,
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PotashCorp
T: (306) 933-8921
www.potashcorp.com
From: Robert Ouzen
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Date: 05/17/2015 04:31 AM
Subject:[ADSM-L] ARCHLOG question
Sent by:"ADSM: Dist St
on is this: for those of you that are using node replication
for a subset of your nodes, how are you managing your node relationships
so that the replicate node command returns a Success code?
Thanks!
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PotashCorp
T:
normally.
Good luck and let us know how it goes!
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Technical Specialist - Infrastructure
PotashCorp
T: (306) 933-8921
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From: Remco Post
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Date: 04/13/2015 09:30 AM
Subject:[ADSM-L] TSM 4 VE prox
Wanda,
Best wishes to you in your retirement. You've always been courteous and
helpful and your input into this group's questions will be sorely missed.
Regards,
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dedup
and replication are not used.
Your restore steps appear correct and should function as desired.
Regards,
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Technical Specialist - Operations
PotashCorp
T: (306) 933-8921
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From: Robert Ouzen
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Date
e any disruption to
the existing data.
Hope that helps
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Technical Specialist - Operations
PotashCorp
T: (306) 933-8921
www.potashcorp.com
From: "Plair, Ricky"
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Date: 03/03/2015 09:57 AM
Subject:[ADSM-L] TSM EXPO
VM backup schedules 'always failed' and quietly changed the status
code to make the product look a little better.
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PotashCorp
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From: "Schaub, Steve"
To:
Hello Robert,
That message is nothing to worry about. Configuring TSM for VE using the
IBM-supplied wizard only provisions one VMCLI node, even when there are
multiple data movers in the configuration.
Regards,
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Hello Jason,
I use the rmt devices provided by the IBM tape driver. If you're using
non-IBM drives, I think you still have to use the TSM device driver.
Regards,
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d on a
NFS datastore. In order to perform incremental-style backups on VMs
stored on an NFS datastore, you'd need something like VEEAM, which has its
own changed-block-tracking mechanism and doesn't leverage the VMWare API
for that purpose.
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nt to keep
separate nodes for, simply repeat the process of creating a TSM scheduler
using a separate dsm.opt file.
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Technical Specialist - Operations
PotashCorp
T: (306) 933-8921
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From: David Ehresman
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
even
6,000,000. We use deduplication and will see 4-7 TB ingest, with another
3-5 TB migration and a further 3-6 TB of reclamation during a given day.
If you're not using dedup on wide scale, I think you'd be safe using the
recommended value for 5TB movement.
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reorg of the 'problem tables,' it exhausted the log even at that size.
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PotashCorp
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From: Zoltan Forray
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Date: 01/06/2015 08:06 AM
Subject:
:
https://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGSG7_7.1.1/com.ibm.itsm.srv.ref.doc/r_opt_server_disablereorgindex.html
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PotashCorp
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From: Zoltan Forray
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
TEMPLATE- Backup 12/06/2013 16:00:00
1 H1 D Sat
S_NEWVM
Hope that helps.
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Technical Specialist - Operations
PotashCorp
T: (306) 933-8921
www.potashcorp.com
From: Robert Ouzen
To:
tape drives
have two 4Gb HBAs connected and the disk has four 8Gb. I'm looking at a
2.3 TB database that will take approx 13 hours to restore.
Any ideas on why it's slow and how it could be sped up would be
appreciated.
Thanks
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lumes typically seen in a backup
stg command. I'll report back tomorrow to see if that change made a
difference in throughput.
Matthew McGeary
Technical Specialist
PotashCorp - Saskatoon
306.933.8921
From: "Prather, Wanda"
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Date: 09/17/2014 09:48
ut I haven't seen much, if any, improvement.
Thanks!
Matthew McGeary
Technical Specialist
PotashCorp - Saskatoon
306.933.8921
I've been looking around but can't find the APAR list for 7.1.1. In
particular, I'm checking to see if any APARs fixed by 7.1.0.100 are
unfixed in 7.1.1.
Anyone know where I might find this information?
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Technical Specialist
PotashCorp - Saskatoon
306.933.8921
F
opy for
DR purposes. Between the fulls and restoring the VM metadata back to a
disk storage pool before restoring VM's, we should see decent speed.
That said, we haven't done a test with the new backup strategy yet. So I
could be wrong.
Matthew McGeary
Technical Specialist
PotashCorp - Sa
fulls to restore you should be prepared to wait a very long time. We were
doing IFincr backups and saw restore speeds in the KB/s. The
documentation isn't kidding around when it recommends that a periodic full
strategy is best for tape copypools.
Matthew McGeary
Technical Specialist
restoring the TSM library manager instance first,
then the two (or more) library clients? Or (if we have two libraries
available at our DR site) can I restore the two library clients
independently, each attached to their own library?
Thanks!
Matthew McGeary
Technical Specialist
PotashCorp - Saskatoon
306.933.8921
thout much success. What hardware are you running your
server on?
Matthew McGeary
Technical Specialist
PotashCorp - Saskatoon
306.933.8921
From: "Rhodes, Richard L."
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Date: 07/16/2014 09:08 AM
Subject:[ADSM-L] TSM server appears to hang
Sent
the dedup pool directly? So long as deduprequiresbackup is set to 'yes,'
data in the pool will remain duplicated until offsiting to tape.
Matthew McGeary
Technical Specialist
PotashCorp - Saskatoon
306.933.8921
From: "Prather, Wanda"
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Date:
been having some troubles with our database, which is ~2.3 TB
(though yours must be huge if you're managing 500 million objects). Are
you doing offline db reorgs every six months or so? We've found that
online reorgs are pretty much impossible, they fill the active log and
crash th
I don't know if it's documented anywhere but that hit us as well. That,
and our datamovers aren't purging the c:\windows\temp directory after a
backup operation.
Ah, the joys of being on the bleeding edge.
Matthew McGeary
Technical Specialist
PotashCorp - Saskatoon
306.933.8921
ently than SP4 does?
Matthew McGeary
Technical Specialist
PotashCorp - Saskatoon
306.933.8921
From: "Pagnotta, Pam (CONTR)"
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Date: 04/23/2014 07:15 AM
Subject:[ADSM-L] TSM 7.1 install on AIX problems
Sent by:"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager&
more often, I will increase my daily
intake amounts but potentially reduce the number of tapes that are needed
for a DR restore, correct?
Matthew McGeary
Technical Specialist
PotashCorp - Saskatoon
306.933.8921
From: "Ehresman,David E."
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Date: 04/2
s assumes,
of course, that you're using disk or a VTL rather than tape. Neither IBM
or VMWare support using tape devices for backup from a VM.
Matthew McGeary
Technical Specialist
PotashCorp - Saskatoon
306.933.8921
From: "Plair, Ricky"
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Date: 04/22/
Yes, the VMCTL data is stored in its own stgpool with a FILE devc and we
could request additional disk for the test to use for the RESTORE STG
command. Would that be faster than restoring individual VM's? Should I
still look at collocating the VMCTL data on a single tape?
Matthew Mc
ols could offer some guidance, I'd appreciate it.
Thanks,
Matthew McGeary
Technical Specialist
PotashCorp - Saskatoon
306.933.8921
t half the
average speed I was getting before,) but that's neither here nor there.
Sigh.
Matthew McGeary
Technical Specialist
PotashCorp - Saskatoon
306.933.8921
From: Kevin Kettner
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Date: 04/18/2014 12:19 PM
Subject:[ADSM-L] TSM 7.1 install on AIX p
You're much better off to simply do a dr prepare and do the upgrade
in-place. If the upgrade fails for whatever reason, reinstall 6.2.3 and
do a db restore.
Matthew McGeary
Technical Specialist
PotashCorp - Saskatoon
306.933.8921
From: Francisco Parrilla
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
I just did an update to 7.1 from 6.2 on a small Windows-based TSM server.
No drama or issues here.
Matthew McGeary
Technical Specialist
PotashCorp - Saskatoon
306.933.8921
From: "Ryder, Michael S"
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Date: 04/03/2014 10:06 AM
Subject:Re: [
The datamover is virtual and uses hotadd or nbd for transport. All backup
traffic runs over the network as a result. Image backups to TSM run
anywhere from 150-200 MB/s. Our nightly backup traffic typically peaks at
350-400 MB/s.
Matthew McGeary
Technical Specialist
PotashCorp - Saskatoon
incremental backup.
3) The VMware client is 7.1 and the server version is 6.3.4.200.
Thanks!
Matthew McGeary
Technical Specialist
PotashCorp - Saskatoon
306.933.8921
From: "Ryder, Michael S"
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Date: 03/20/2014 01:55 PM
Subject:Re: [ADSM-L]
ect. Average backup/restore transfer rates are in the 25 MB/s range
using 1Gb NICs and around 55 MB/s using 10Gb NICs.
How do I improve the throughput on these single-VM backup and restore
sessions?
Thanks!
Matthew McGeary
Technical Specialist
PotashCorp - Saskatoon
306.933.8921
split it up into nodes that represent the VM's that are
critical for DR and then others like non-critical production and dev/test
so that we can (eventually) node-replicate DR VM's only to an offsite
location.
Matthew McGeary
Technical Specialist
PotashCorp - Saskatoon
306.9
he network link providing the
data, in our case.
We have far fewer objects stored than you do, with 106,000,000 in the
primary storage pool. Object count is the best predictor of database
size, so you will see a larger database size than we do, I'd think.
Matthew McGeary
Technical S
o the inherent (but poorly
documented at the time) performance penalties that the IBM compression
solution has for sequential workloads. Other than this shortcoming, the
v7000 has been a good fit for TSM and has handled everything we've thrown
at it.
Matthew McGeary
Technical Specialist
t
schedule.
Matthew McGeary
Technical Specialist
PotashCorp - Saskatoon
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From: "Stackwick, Stephen"
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Date: 03/18/2013 10:23 AM
Subject:Re: [ADSM-L] TSM for VE question
Sent by:"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"
You can
ile to
go down the upgrade path.
Matthew McGeary
Technical Specialist
PotashCorp - Saskatoon
306.933.8921
From: Roger Deschner
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Date: 03/27/2013 11:43 PM
Subject:Re: [ADSM-L] TSM 6.3.3
Sent by:"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"
Having just done
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