Nick,; Check out Redbook SG24-6679 - IBM Tivoli Storage Manager in a Clustered Environment. The date's a little old, but the concepts haven't changed.
Nick Cassimatis ----- Forwarded by Nicholas Cassimatis/Raleigh/IBM on 08/21/2008 04:21 PM ----- "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[email protected]> wrote on 08/21/2008 03:44:37 PM: > [image removed] > > Clustering TSM servers? > > Nick Laflamme > > to: > > ADSM-L > > 08/21/2008 04:08 PM > > Sent by: > > "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[email protected]> > > Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager". > > How common is it for sites to cluster TSM servers? > > I'm looking for my next TSM position and have found at least one > situation, perhaps two, where the would-be client wants TSM > administrators who are familiar with CSM in an AIX/p-series > environment. As far as I can tell, that implies setting up the TSM > servers to fail-over so that if one fails, a hot-spare immediately > covers for it. I've never heard of this, and I've worked in a couple > of large, multi-TSM server environments. > > My working theory is that someone took an AIX administrator set of > requirements as a template and didn't remove enough extraneous > buzzwords, but if more sites than I realize are clustering TSM > servers, I guess I should know that, too. > > Thanks, > Nick
