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 condition. Each volume name will be unique and assigned by TSM. > > If you use more than one one disk partition for the device class you > need to dsmfmt as many volumes as you need and you must then define > those volumes to the storage pool. Only the volume names you specified > will be used and reused.
Are you saying that if I have one huge disk that TSM will carve it up into some size of logical slices and then use those slices? I'm on AIX, not Windows, does this make a difference? Currently we use dsmfmt to create the files on disk that TSM uses as storage pools. I'm not the TSM admin. I think the individual storage pools are manually given to a 'storage class'? We have enough disk for a night's backup (of incrementals). I'd like to give all the disk to TSM to manage as little volumes (or whatever the term is) so that backups are quick (node->network->tsm). Mike
