Re: Domain, Management Class and Copy Group Best Practices

2013-05-17 Thread Sergio O. Fuentes
Thanks, guys! I had fallen asleep monitoring this thread and I just now caught up on it. Yes, there's a lot of unknowns at this juncture of our re-architecture of the TSM environment. We're introducing TSM DD as much as possible into the environment, along with replication between our two

Re: Domain, Management Class and Copy Group Best Practices

2013-05-08 Thread Skylar Thompson
FWIW, here's the characteristics we use to split up our storage pools: * Backup vs archive - we segregate archives from backups since their retention (and subsequent reclamation) is so much longer than backups * Library - obviously we need to have separate storage pool hierarchies for separate li

Re: Domain, Management Class and Copy Group Best Practices

2013-05-08 Thread Rick Adamson
AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Domain, Management Class and Copy Group Best Practices Just my 2 cents :) One of my TSM worlds consists of several TSM servers and roughly 900 clients (mix of BA, TDP, etc.). When the time came for an upgrade the original system was configured

Re: Domain, Management Class and Copy Group Best Practices

2013-05-08 Thread Prather, Wanda
DSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Domain, Management Class and Copy Group Best Practices Just my 2 cents :) One of my TSM worlds consists of several TSM servers and roughly 900 clients (mix of BA, TDP, etc.). When the time came for an upgrade the original system was configured where do

Re: Domain, Management Class and Copy Group Best Practices

2013-05-08 Thread Rick Adamson
ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Prather, Wanda Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2013 11:15 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Domain, Management Class and Copy Group Best Practices Agreed. No reason to create different domains due to platform, TSM doesn

Re: Domain, Management Class and Copy Group Best Practices

2013-05-08 Thread Prather, Wanda
VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Bill Smoldt Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2013 4:23 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Domain, Management Class and Copy Group Best Practices Sergio, Having developed some of the early training, way before V5, I can tell you that the rationale for platform d

Re: Domain, Management Class and Copy Group Best Practices

2013-05-08 Thread Allen S. Rout
On 05/08/2013 09:40 AM, Skylar Thompson wrote: > We've offered labs policy authority, although so far they're all happy > letting us suffer with managing the entire thing. :P > Heh. Well, we've been doing one variation or another on this service for more than 10 years, so I've had training time.

Re: Domain, Management Class and Copy Group Best Practices

2013-05-08 Thread Skylar Thompson
We've offered labs policy authority, although so far they're all happy letting us suffer with managing the entire thing. :P -- Skylar Thompson (skyl...@u.washington.edu) -- Genome Sciences Department, System Administrator -- Foege Building S046, (206)-685-7354 -- University of Washington School of

Re: Domain, Management Class and Copy Group Best Practices

2013-05-08 Thread Allen S. Rout
On 05/07/2013 04:32 PM, Skylar Thompson wrote: > > We now have moved to a model where the unit generating the > backup/archive usage is charged per byte per year via a cost center. We've got a very similar structure here at UF, with the addition that there are "local admins" designated for each (m

Re: Domain, Management Class and Copy Group Best Practices

2013-05-07 Thread Skylar Thompson
I work in a large research department, with 31 labs that basically function as autonomous businesses, along with a few institutes and centers with their own funding. Of those 31 labs, 13 of them have some form of dedicated computational resources. We used to have one big policy domain, with one or

Re: Domain, Management Class and Copy Group Best Practices

2013-05-07 Thread Bill Smoldt
Sergio, Having developed some of the early training, way before V5, I can tell you that the rationale for platform domains was strictly organizational. In those days, most IT shops were organized by platform and had retention control over their own systems. Free of the organizational restri

Domain, Management Class and Copy Group Best Practices

2013-05-07 Thread Sergio O. Fuentes
Hello all, Back in the early TSM 5 days, or at least once when I went to training, it was advised that each individual platform had its own DOMAIN for retention and destination control. Now, since I'm evaluating a TSM v6 environment, I'm rethinking whether that is necessary across the board.