Re: nfs mounted tsm storage becoming unavailable

Hi Rick! Formatting the whole volume was the case in the TSM 5.5 era, but not anymore. Formatting a diskpool or filepool volume took ages back then because it was filed with a text string (my name backwards :-), but with version 6 this has changed and it just pre-allocates the requested space

Re: A few questions about managing multiple Spectrum Protect servers with the Operations Center

I believe that the OC will want to create a named account (default name) on each TSM server it monitors (it's ok to say TSM, I'm not IBM). This password would need to be the same across all the TSM servers. I think that's going to be the problem for you but I could be wrong.

A few questions about managing multiple Spectrum Protect servers with the Operations Center

Hi all, I am looking into some things regarding the managing/monitoring of multiple TSM (sorry, Spectrum Protect) servers using the Operations Center. I can build a test setup to look into it but that is not worth the effort if somebody here can tell me it's not going to work. :-) Let's asume I

Re: nfs mounted tsm storage becoming unavailable

Op 9 sep. 2015, om 09:11 heeft "Loon, EJ van (ITOPT3) - KLM" het volgende geschreven: > Hi Rick! > Formatting the whole volume was the case in the TSM 5.5 era, but not anymore. not true, but TSM does attempt smarter ways of formatting, so it seems faster from your

Re: A few questions about managing multiple Spectrum Protect servers with the Operations Center

Hi David, thanks for your reply. >I believe that the OC will want to create a named account (default name) on each TSM server it monitors (it's ok to say TSM, I'm not IBM). This password would need to be the same across all the TSM servers. I think that's going to be the problem for you but I

Re: vss errors on tsm backup

I would run this for the c: drive: Here is the VSHADOW pre-testing that is recommended BEFORE Tivoli Storage Manager is even installed: *The "VSHADOW Prereq Test" (Windows 2003)* 1. Test non-persistent shadow copy creation and deletion. Run "VSHADOW k: l:“ (where k: and l: are the

A few questions about Node Replication

Hi Spectrum Men ☺, We want to implement the nodes replication functions on our TSM servers. The network team asks me a few questions which I am not able to answer. Can we isolate replication traffic on dedicated interfaces? I think so, defining a TSM server with a dedicated access, but I do not

Re: A few questions about managing multiple Spectrum Protect servers with the Operations Center

From the v7.1 AIX server installation manual: Restrictions: v A single server cannot be both a hub server and a spoke server. v Each spoke server can be assigned to only one hub server. v Each hub server requires a separate instance of the Operations Center, each of which has a separate web

vss errors on tsm backup

Client machine running win 2008-r2 64 bit under hyper-v. Tsm client 6.4.2. Several errors all related to vss. Extract from dsmerror.log follows. 09/09/2015 06:30:20 ANS5250E An unexpected error was encountered. TSM function name : AddToSnapshotSet TSM function : 'AddToSnapshotSet

Re: A few questions about managing multiple Spectrum Protect servers with the Operations Center

Hello Stefan, I've been wanting to do the exact same thing myself but haven't tried it because I thought that the documentation for the OC stated it was not possible. Your email prompted me to look again and now I can't find anything to indicate it isn't possible. As I understand it, adding a

Re: A few questions about managing multiple Spectrum Protect servers with the Operations Center

Ok, thanks David and Matthew. The reply from David would be indicate a 'no go' since I would need a spoke to also be a hub for this to work I guess. (spoke from an HQ perspective and a hub from a BO local perspective) Or is an OC instance only a real hub when it receives data from spokes, In that

Re: vss errors on tsm backup

As hinted in the messages, looking at the Windows Event logs (application and system) might provide some useful clues. Are there any hardware providers in the mix? If yes, it might be worth trying to back up system state with this option in dsm.opt: VSSUSESYSTEMPROVIDER YES Best regards, -

Re: nfs mounted tsm storage becoming unavailable

Smarter way of formatting? Either it fills the files with zero's or with a certain text string like in 5.5, formatting takes time. Allocating a 100 Gb files currently takes a few seconds, so it's impossible that TSM physically formats a file. Kind regards, Eric van Loon AF/KLM Storage

Re: nfs mounted tsm storage becoming unavailable

It depends on the file system the volume is created on. Ext4 and JFS support sparse file creation and TSM takes advantage of it. NFS does not. Search the admin guide for "preallocated" for info. On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 10:51 AM, Loon, EJ van (ITOPT3) - KLM wrote: Smarter

Re: vss errors on tsm backup

The link has these instructions for 2008 / 2012. I use them all the time, they work. :-) *The "DISKSHADOW Prereq Test" (Windows 2008 and 2012)* VSS functionality can be validated with the Windows 2008 and/or Windows 2012 Server embedded command DISKSHADOW. The following are the DISKSHADOW tests

Re: vss errors on tsm backup

Great for 2003, but as stated, this is a win 2008-r2/64 machine. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Stefan Folkerts Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2015 9:12 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] vss errors on tsm

Re: nfs mounted tsm storage becoming unavailable

Hi Eric, On AIX there is the iocp, this van apparently perform the formatting for TSM, what you see is that TSM only needs a few moments to format the volume, and from there on IOCP takes over. On unix file systems, because they support sparse files, the formatting must be performed. It's easy

Re: A few questions about managing multiple Spectrum Protect servers with the Operations Center

You guys are right that this is not a supported OC configuration.   But, to get this to work you would want to look at configuring the OC manually (not using the Hub Configuration built in).    Take a look at serverConnection.properties in (/opt/tivoli/tsm/ui/Liberty/usr/servers/guiServer/) on

Re: A few questions about managing multiple Spectrum Protect servers with the Operations Center

A few things that could cause issues: 1) At-Risk status is stored as a node attribute on the server in question. So having two OC's manage a node will lead to conflicting At-Risk assignments. 2) At-Risk intervals are also stored as a server attribute on each server. Same issue as above It all