Re: DIRMC - Are copypool reclamation performance issues resolved or not.

2005-03-20 Thread TSM_User
on the restore side? > >regards, > >Paul > >- Original Message - >From: "Richard Sims" >To: >Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2005 4:44 AM >Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] DIRMC - Are copypool reclamation performance issues >resolved or not. > > &g

Re: DIRMC - Are copypool reclamation performance issues resolved or not.

2005-03-20 Thread fred johanson
ith success on the restore side? regards, Paul - Original Message - From: "Richard Sims" To: Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2005 4:44 AM Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] DIRMC - Are copypool reclamation performance issues resolved or not. > Paul - > > This generally falls under the TS

Re: DIRMC - Are copypool reclamation performance issues resolved or not.

2005-03-19 Thread Rushforth, Tim
h 19, 2005 3:17 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: DIRMC - Are copypool reclamation performance issues resolved or not. Paul, It is definitely, absolutely, positively, seen it myself - fixed Been fixed for years. Forget DIRMC. Ken > -Original Message- > From: ADSM: Dist St

Re: DIRMC - Are copypool reclamation performance issues resolved or not.

2005-03-19 Thread TSM_User
on the restore side? regards, Paul - Original Message - From: "Richard Sims" To: Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2005 4:44 AM Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] DIRMC - Are copypool reclamation performance issues resolved or not. > Paul - > > This generally falls under the TSM term Res

Re: DIRMC - Are copypool reclamation performance issues resolved or not.

2005-03-19 Thread Kenneth & Susan Bury
> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Re: DIRMC - Are copypool reclamation performance > issues resolved or not. > > > Hi Richard, > > I took a look through the Quickfacts (something I should have > done long ago). It does indeed suggest that surrogate > directories are created

Re: DIRMC - Are copypool reclamation performance issues resolved or not.

2005-03-19 Thread Paul Fielding
rday, March 19, 2005 4:44 AM Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] DIRMC - Are copypool reclamation performance issues resolved or not. Paul - This generally falls under the TSM term Restore Order processing. We've discussed it on the List before. I have an entry on it in ADSM QuickFacts which you can refer

Re: DIRMC - Are copypool reclamation performance issues resolved or not.

2005-03-19 Thread Richard Sims
Paul - This generally falls under the TSM term Restore Order processing. We've discussed it on the List before. I have an entry on it in ADSM QuickFacts which you can refer to as a preliminary to further pursuit in IBM doc. Richard Simshttp://people.bu.edu/rbs On Mar 19, 2005, at 3:06 AM, Pau

Re: DIRMC - Are copypool reclamation performance issues resolved or not.

2005-03-19 Thread Paul Fielding
onger needed. Is there any documentation on this somewhere I can reference? regards, Paul - Original Message - From: "TSM_User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 3:54 PM Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] DIRMC - Are copypool reclamation performance issues resolved or

Re: DIRMC - Are copypool reclamation performance issues resolved or not.

2005-03-17 Thread TSM_User
DU Cc: Subject: Re: DIRMC - Are copypool reclamation performance issues resolved or not. It is fixed but the reason there have been suggestions to use a file type device class is because disk pools unline sequential pools are scanned from begining to end for every storage pool backup. I hav

Re: DIRMC - Are copypool reclamation performance issues resolved or not.

2005-03-17 Thread Steve Bennett
Storage pools consist of one or more volumes, generally disk or tape. The storage pool gets its volumes via the device class which has a maxscr setting to limit the volume count and max capacity to estimate or assign the max size of the volume. The device class also points to a directory which in t

Re: DIRMC - Are copypool reclamation performance issues resolved or not.

2005-03-17 Thread Mike
On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, Steve Bennett might have said: > Wanda, > > I just added a sata disk array in TSM v5.2 so I'll jump in here. > > If you are using one disk partition in Windows for the device class then > you can let TSM define the number of vols it needs up to maxscr or out > of disk conditio

Re: DIRMC - Are copypool reclamation performance issues resolved or not.

2005-03-17 Thread Jurjen Oskam
On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 07:38:16AM -0500, Richard Sims wrote: > blocks of 256 KiB minimum...". Could you provide a documentation or web > site reference for that 5.3 change? No, sorry. Just the info I received through the PMR. I made the suggestion to include this in e.g. a README, and that sugge

Re: DIRMC - Are copypool reclamation performance issues resolved or not.

2005-03-17 Thread Rushforth, Tim
M-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Re: DIRMC - Are copypool reclamation performance issues > resolved or not. > > > It is fixed (somewhere around 5.1.5.2). > > -Original Message- > From: Thorneycroft, Doug [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 4:25

Re: DIRMC - Are copypool reclamation performance issues resolved or not.

2005-03-17 Thread Prather, Wanda
Tim/Steve Thanks - got it! -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rushforth, Tim Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 11:17 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: DIRMC - Are copypool reclamation performance issues resolved or not. 1. You

Re: DIRMC - Are copypool reclamation performance issues resolved or not.

2005-03-17 Thread Rushforth, Tim
ED] Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 9:49 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: DIRMC - Are copypool reclamation performance issues resolved or not. Tim: We are looking at using all disk now for our onsite disk pool with our next capital$ buy. Something I've never been sure of - Whenf you u

Re: DIRMC - Are copypool reclamation performance issues resolved or not.

2005-03-17 Thread Steve Bennett
it somehow? Thanks Wanda -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rushforth, Tim Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 5:31 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: DIRMC - Are copypool reclamation performance issues resolved or not. It is fixed

Re: DIRMC - Are copypool reclamation performance issues resolved or not.

2005-03-17 Thread Prather, Wanda
ation performance issues resolved or not. It is fixed (somewhere around 5.1.5.2). -Original Message- From: Thorneycroft, Doug [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 4:25 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: DIRMC - Are copypool reclamation performance issues resolved o

Re: DIRMC - Are copypool reclamation performance issues resolved or not.

2005-03-17 Thread Richard Sims
Jurjen - In this thread, and the "Minor gotcha on upgrade to 5.3" thread, you indicate that TSM 5.3 has changed things such that "...the handling of FILE volumes was changed. All writes to such a volume is now done in blocks of 256 KiB minimum...". Could you provide a documentation or web site refe

Re: DIRMC - Are copypool reclamation performance issues resolved or not.

2005-03-16 Thread Jurjen Oskam
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 07:29:50PM -0600, Rushforth, Tim wrote: [DIRMC] > What in 5.3 warrants new consideration? Probably the fact that sequential volumes are written to in blocks of at least 256 KB, even when the data is only 1500 bytes. This can cause a lot of overhead, and the effecti

Re: DIRMC - Are copypool reclamation performance issues resolved or not.

2005-03-16 Thread Paul Fielding
- Original Message - in a much faster backup. Now all that being said this new feature in V5.3 warrents new consideration. My new consideration is to stop using DIRMC pools as the reason they were created in the first place has also long been fixed. Which reason is this that has been fixe

Re: DIRMC - Are copypool reclamation performance issues resolved or not.

2005-03-16 Thread Rushforth, Tim
directories were on tape. Thanks, Tim Rusforth City of Winnipeg -Original Message- From: TSM_User [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed 3/16/2005 6:48 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Cc: Subject: Re: DIRMC - Are copypool reclamation performance

Re: DIRMC - Are copypool reclamation performance issues resolved or not.

2005-03-16 Thread TSM_User
It is fixed but the reason there have been suggestions to use a file type device class is because disk pools unline sequential pools are scanned from begining to end for every storage pool backup. I have had some customers that have millions of directories in their DIRMC pool. Even when none ch

Re: DIRMC - Are copypool reclamation performance issues resolved or not.

2005-03-16 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 2:31 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: DIRMC - Are copypool reclamation performance issues resolved or not. It is fixed (somewhere around 5.1.5.2). -Original Message- From: Thorneycroft, Doug [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005

Re: DIRMC - Are copypool reclamation performance issues resolved or not.

2005-03-16 Thread Rushforth, Tim
It is fixed (somewhere around 5.1.5.2). -Original Message- From: Thorneycroft, Doug [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 4:25 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: DIRMC - Are copypool reclamation performance issues resolved or not. OK, after spending a large portion

DIRMC - Are copypool reclamation performance issues resolved or not.

2005-03-16 Thread Thorneycroft, Doug
OK, after spending a large portion of my day reviewing adsm-l post going back to 2000, I'm still not sure. Does anyone know if there is still a performance problem running reclamation on a DIRMC random access disk pool? I came across one post that said it was supposedly fixed, but recommended usin