Re: Disk Pool Volume Configuration

2005-08-17 Thread Richard Sims
On Aug 17, 2005, at 3:39 PM, Joni Moyer wrote: ... Would you happen to know if there is a max. size for a volume? ... See IBM Technote 1170255. Richard Sims

Re: Disk Pool Volume Configuration

2005-08-17 Thread Pétur Eyþórsson
Ben is absulutly correct here in my oppinion, raw volumes are beter. Even though aix has the best I/O perfomance  is not as good as raw volumes. you need be a good AIX administrator to tune the filesystem to be as good as raw. I do alsow agree with Ben on to take earch LUN a volume and to put them

Re: Disk Pool Volume Configuration

2005-08-17 Thread Ben Bullock
This is a little off the topic of your question, but we don't have our TSM server on a SATA SAN, just on SSA drives, so I'm not sure what the best ways. I see you are making all those luns into 1 LV, putting a filesystem on that vol and then putting it in the storage pool.

Re: Disk Pool Volume Configuration

2005-08-17 Thread Lawrence Clark
SM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Dist Stor cc Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject .EDU> Re: Disk Pool Volume Configuration 08/17/2005 03:34 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist S

Re: Disk Pool Volume Configuration

2005-08-17 Thread Joni Moyer
Subject .EDU> Re: Disk Pool Volume Configuration 08/17/2005 03:34 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Disk Pool Volume Configuration

2005-08-17 Thread Lawrence Clark
yes, you can have more than one tsm volume per physical volume. the smaller the allocation, the more volumes, which gives to flexibility to assign them per the needs of the storage pool rather than simply give two to each. we just define them to a storage group per demand. but once define and al

Re: disk pool sizing (again)?

2004-10-11 Thread Stapleton, Mark
>> My question is should I destroy all the individual devices and lump >> the devices into one large pool so that the entire night's backup is >> written as quickly as possible (then migrated), or should >things stay >> the same? > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Beh

Re: disk pool sizing (again)?

2004-10-11 Thread Thomas Denier
> My question is should I destroy all the individual devices and lump > the devices into one large pool so that the entire night's backup > is written as quickly as possible (then migrated), or should > things stay the same? When you run migration from a single disk storage pool there is, as far a

Re: disk pool utilization?

2004-08-23 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject Re: disk pool utilization? >>Is there a way to find the max utilization during the night? Yes, with a TSM Monitoring tool such as Servergraph/TSM, http://www.servergraph.com . Alternatively, you could try to write your own scripts t

Re: disk pool utilization?

2004-08-20 Thread David E Ehresman
>>Is there a way to find the max utilization during the night? Yes, with a TSM Monitoring tool such as Servergraph/TSM, http://www.servergraph.com . Alternatively, you could try to write your own scripts to monitor, record, and report on such events. David Ehresman University of Louisville

Re: disk pool utilization?

2004-08-20 Thread Warren, Matthew (Retail)
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 2:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: disk pool utilization? On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, Warren, Matthew (Retail) wrote: > It will be indicating the current utilization of the diskpool. IE; the > amount of space within the di

Re: disk pool utilization?

2004-08-19 Thread Mike
On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, Warren, Matthew (Retail) wrote: > It will be indicating the current utilization of the diskpool. IE; the > amount of space within the diskpool that is currently occupied by TSM > data. > > Matt. Is there a way to find the max utilization during the night? Mike

Re: disk pool utilization?

2004-08-19 Thread Warren, Matthew (Retail)
It will be indicating the current utilization of the diskpool. IE; the amount of space within the diskpool that is currently occupied by TSM data. Matt. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 1:51 PM To:

Re: DISK POOL

2004-08-19 Thread Warren, Matthew (Retail)
Also, has the MAXSCRATCH limit for the next stgpool been hit? -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Dourado Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 4:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: DISK POOL .have you tried

Re: DISK POOL

2004-08-10 Thread Bill Dourado
.have you tried : q vol stgp=3494pool access=readwrite stat=filling to make sure tapes are available q stg 3494pool f=d che

Re: DISK POOL

2004-08-10 Thread Dwight Cook
going to be something wrong with your next pool in one way or another 3494POOL, you should check the status of the library if AIX, "lsdev -Cctape", look for lmcp#, use in "mtlib -l/dev/lmcp# -qL" look for anything like ~gripper not available~ or ~paused operational state~, etc... mtlib

Re: Disk pool volume mirroring

2002-11-06 Thread Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM
unt of time for several people to get RMAN in sync again. Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines -Original Message- From: Karel Bos [mailto:Karel.Bos@;NUON.COM] Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 16:33 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Disk pool volume mirroring Hi Eri

Re: Disk pool volume mirroring

2002-11-06 Thread Karel Bos
Hi Eric, Yep, and if there is a fire and your copy tapes aren't in the bunker yet and so on. It is just a matter of how safe you want to be. Performance isn't a issue, not that we could find out. We turn cashing on and of and back on, without finding the famous performance degradation we heart

Re: Disk-Pool-Volume delete not possible

2002-09-30 Thread Cook, Dwight E
This is one I had a long time ago... hanging pointers, here is how to solve. make sure all data is migrated from disk pools to tape pools do "q vol dev=disk" to capture all info on what disks are where write macros to delete all disk volumes (except the problem one) and define them back then when

Re: Disk-Pool-Volume delete not possible

2002-09-30 Thread Loon, E.J. van - SPLXM
Hi Chris! That's an old one! Issue an AUDIT VOLUME /TSM1/stgc/stg6.dsm FIX=YES. Afterwards you will probably be able to delete the volume. Kindest regards, Eric van Loon KLM Royal Dutch Airlines -Original Message- From: Christoph Pilgram [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September

Re: disk pool size,and total number.

2002-02-14 Thread Kelly Lipp
I would be tempted to send the Onbar data directly to tape, especially since you have plenty of drives. If you send the data to disk first, you will only be able to run one stream to tape during migration. Kelly J. Lipp Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc. PO Box 51313 Colorado Springs, CO 80949

Re: disk pool problem tsm 4.2.1.9

2002-01-29 Thread Wholey, Joseph (TGA\\MLOL)
Change your Hi Lo migration threshold (up the 60% on the hi) or throw more disk at your solution. I'd first change the threshold though. -Original Message- From: Burak Demircan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 7:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: disk pool pro

Re: disk pool problem tsm 4.2.1.9

2002-01-28 Thread Burak Demircan
20:28 Please respond to ADSM-L                 To:        [EMAIL PROTECTED]         cc:                 Subject:        Re: disk pool problem tsm 4.2.1.9 Hi Burak, You can prevent clients from accessing tapes directly: update

Re: disk pool problem tsm 4.2.1.9

2002-01-28 Thread Prather, Wanda
Hi Burak, You can prevent clients from accessing tapes directly: update node ** MAXNUMMP=0 This prevents the node from grabbing a tape drive for backup or archive (it can still get a tape for RESTORE or RETRIEVE). However, with MAXNUMMP=0, if there is not enough space in the disk pool when the

Re: disk pool problem tsm 4.2.1.9

2002-01-28 Thread Miller, Ryan
EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: disk pool problem tsm 4.2.1.9 You will need to ensure that at all times there is enough space in the disk pool for any client data that might arrive in order to guarantee that direct to tape won't happen. I think you'll have trouble with that with a 3 GB disk

Re: disk pool problem tsm 4.2.1.9

2002-01-28 Thread Kelly Lipp
You will need to ensure that at all times there is enough space in the disk pool for any client data that might arrive in order to guarantee that direct to tape won't happen. I think you'll have trouble with that with a 3 GB disk pool. Kelly J. Lipp Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc. PO Box 513

Re: Disk pool size vs large file

2001-06-29 Thread Lisa Cabanas
x27;t resist. I will not blindly reply with the entire history heretofore. lisa Richard Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 06/29/2001 01:35 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: (bcc: Lisa Cabanas/SC/MODOT) Subject

Re: Disk pool size vs large file

2001-06-29 Thread Richard Sims
>...*please* trim your email responses... Amen, Mark. It's dismaying to see, like, a one-sentence response to an issue which includes the entire thread of a discussion along with it, running for hundreds of lines. If you've visited www.adsm.org to like Browse Current Month, you've seen how post

Re: Disk pool size vs large file

2001-06-29 Thread Mark Stapleton
On Mon, 25 Jun 2001 09:26:51 -0500, you wrote: >ADSM SUPPORT PEOPLE, > >How do we find out about all of these "FEATURES" of design >that cause ADSM to break? I had to laugh when I read the above statement. I suddenly summoned this mental image of a Tivoli level 2 support engineer reading it, le

Re: Disk pool size vs large file

2001-06-25 Thread Jeff Bach
en Systems Engineering Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. WAL-MART CONFIDENTIAL -Original Message- From: France, Don G (Pace) [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2001 3:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Disk pool size vs

Re: Disk pool size vs large file

2001-06-23 Thread France, Don G (Pace)
Inspect your server activity log; there's probably better info, there -- like a tape mount request that didn't get satisfied within the "mount wait" time on the device class of the storage pool your management-class/copy-group points to. I've seen this happen where the max-scratch was set too lo

Re: Disk pool size vs large file

2001-06-22 Thread Lee, Lin-Yen
How to have a MC directly points to tape? -Original Message- From: Prather, Wanda [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 2:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Disk pool size vs large file What we do is to put the one BIG Oracle TDP client we have into a

Re: Disk pool size vs large file

2001-06-22 Thread Hrouda Tomáš
Yes, you are completely right ... files grater than available space in diskpool are currently writed to tapepool ... no data will be lost and no backup crash wouldn't occure. You can even set up the limit for diskpool to exactly specify size of files, which have skip diskpool - parameter MAXSIZE.

Re: Disk pool size vs large file

2001-06-22 Thread Indra Gunawan
lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 06/21/2001 > 02:19:07 PM > > Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > cc: (bcc: Sam Schrage/Nashville) > > > > Subject: Re: Disk pool size vs large fi

Re: Disk pool size vs large file

2001-06-21 Thread Bradley Tidd
TED]>@VM.MARIST.EDU> on 06/21/2001 01:00:54 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: Disk pool size vs large file >I have a 56GB dis

Re: Disk pool size vs large file

2001-06-21 Thread Sam Schrage
9:07 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: (bcc: Sam Schrage/Nashville) Subject: Re: Disk pool size vs large file A couple of questions first. What kind and how many tape drives are you migrating to?

Re: Disk pool size vs large file

2001-06-21 Thread Joe Cascanette
My experience with hugh files that exceed the backuppool is adjusting the high and low thresholds to a high=85 and a low=70. So far the tape migration will start when the 85% of the storage is used and the mount point will remain until the 70% is meet. The default of 15 timeout for the tapes will

Re: Disk pool size vs large file

2001-06-21 Thread Chris Gibes
A couple of questions first. What kind and how many tape drives are you migrating to? What kind of disk are you using and how is it attached? I have a seen a few sites with SSA disk pools and multiple 3590 tape drives with a backups over a 100meg ethernet connection where migration from disk to ta

Re: Disk pool size vs large file

2001-06-21 Thread Prather, Wanda
What we do is to put the one BIG Oracle TDP client we have into a separate domain for BIG users with a management class that points direct to tape, instead of the disk pool. Just remember that whenever this client backs up, there should be a tape drive available (although if there isn't one avail

Re: Disk pool size vs large file

2001-06-21 Thread Richard Sims
>I have a 56GB disk pool with the next pool to tape. I have a user, DB2 >Admin, that wants to back up a 125GB DB2 backup. What's the best way to >handle this one user? If he/she backs up the file will it crash the system >because it's bigger that the diskpool, or will it go right to tape? That