Yep. >From Windows you can use a CIFS share, or from Unix an NFS share. TSM Windows services have to run under a network account, not a local account, but that's easily fixed.
Then your DEFINE VOLUME commands (from Windows) just use UNC names instead of X:\ local drive names, like this: define volume stgpool_name \\nashostname\sharename\vol1.00.whatever formatsize=nnnnnMB BE CAREFUL about how you set up the nashostname\sharename, once it's done you can't change it in TSM. And if it's CIFS, remember you are going from the TSM server across your network via TCP/IP to get to those storage volumes, and it will be slower than SAN storage attached via HBA (unless you are using 10GE and a very fast NAS). In my experience I usually find that writing to the share gets some I/O errors due to Windows timeouts from CIFS delays. If so you will need to go in the Windows registry and increase the timeout allowances for CIFS to stop the errors. Make sure your TSM server is on the same network segment as your NAS - not going across something like a distributed switch or a firewall. (And consider maybe using it as a second tier of storage - do your backup clients to fast disk, do your backup stgpool from there, then migrate out to the slower NAS storage for long-term. Otherwise you could be writing the data from the client across the network to the TSM server, which writes it across the network to the NAS storage, then you pull it back across the network again to do BACKUP STGPOOL to tape. Will your network be a problem -- or will you be the network problem -- in that scenario?) And all NAS devices are not created equal - some are fast, some are dirt slow. Will yours support the I/O rate you need for TSM? And how many times will you be moving the data to/from it? But it works. You just need reasonable expectations and some tuning. Start slowly and test. Wanda Prather TSM Consultant ICF International Enterprise and Cybersecurity Systems Division -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of McWilliams, Eric Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2015 12:39 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [ADSM-L] NAS storage Can NAS storage be used to back up data? Can I set up a storage pool on the TSM server to back up to NAS like I do SAN? Thanks, Eric ********************************************************************** *** CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE *** This message and any included attachments are from MedSynergies, Inc. and are intended only for the addressee. The contents of this message contain confidential information belonging to the sender that is legally protected. Unauthorized forwarding, printing, copying, distribution, or use of such information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the addressee, please promptly delete this message and notify the sender of the delivery error by e-mail or contact MedSynergies, Inc. at [email protected].
