In short no. Sanergy is what allows you to share the filesystem amongst multiple servers. GPFS is a an alternative to SANergy that also provides the file and block locking necessary to share a physical device among multiple hosts.
I may be wrong, but I believe that the only two supported LAN free protocols are GPFS and SANergy. If TSM supported CIFS or NFS shares as stgpools it might be able to do something similar with a filer, but I'm pretty confident that is not supported. You definitely cannot do it with iSCSI, because that is a block device, not a file share. Hope this helps. I have not done a SANergy install in 4 years, so things may have changed. Gary Itrus Technologies On May 5, 2010, at 5:30 PM, WHEDA TSM wrote:
Hello... we will be implementing an iSCSI SAN in the near future. The TSM server needs more disk storage pool space. I want to build new storage pools (FILE type, but perhaps also DISK type) on SAN storage. I don't need SANergy for this... correct? Some of the TSM clients that will reside on the SAN would benefit from LAN-free backups. All TSM clients and the TSM server are Windows 2003 / 2008, we have no other client platforms. Without using SANergy or GPFS, can I create a FILE type storage pool on SAN storage and define a shared FILE type library so that the TSM server and the TSM SAN storage agents can both write to the pool? Thanks... Ken
