Guys,
I'm scratching around trying to find out if TSM/ZFS play ball when it comes to raw volumes for DB and Log volumes. The published IBM recommendation for Solaris DB, Log and Stgpool volumes is still to use raw partitions for 5.5, but I'm not seeing anything specific in the way of support for this on ZFS being stated yet. I do see from IBM.com that a customer has been having problems trying this with an earlier release of TSM, but also that TSM fixpack 5.5.3 should fix it (although I don't see anything in the APARs fixed list that it has). http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=1019 <http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=1019&context=SSSQWC&context=SS GSG7&q1=ZFS&uid=swg1IC59683&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&lang=en> &context=SSSQWC&context=SSGSG7&q1=ZFS&uid=swg1IC59683&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&lan g=en Is anyone else running with Solaris ZFS raw partitions? Or, does anyone have an alternative view as to whether it's even worth using raw partitions on ZFS filesystems for DB/Log? TSM Server 5.5.3.0 Solaris 10, Sun Fire T2000 EMC DMX4 Disk Cheers, /David Mc London, UK
