I have done this recently on Windows, AIX and Linux. We treated it like a DR exercise and basically installed TSM (same version) on new hardware.
Made sure I migrated storage pools to 0. Ran a prepare. Put the volhist, devconf, dsmserv.opt in the proper place. Took care of zoning with the tape library Allocate new storage for DB/activelog/archlog (we kept paths to these the same as old server, but used new storage just in case) Restore DB ***the above order may vary, but I think you get the point. The important step is next. Go to lunch. -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kevin Kettner Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2014 2:02 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Moving TSM instance to new hardware I'm running 6.3.4 server on AIX. The server is getting to the end of it's life so we're planning to replace the hardware. I have just about everything related to TSM installed on SAN disk, besides the stuff that gets installed in /usr. The last time I did a hardware swap was with TSM 5.5. The basic procedure was this: 1. Install the TSM software(exact same version) on the new hardware. 2. Shutdown TSM on the old hardware. 3. Export all volumes. 4. Rezone all SAN storage. 5. Import volumes on new hardware. 6. Start TSM. I did that several times and never had any problems. So I'm wondering if anyone has done something similar with TSM 6.x? Thanks! -Kevin
