On 08/12/14 17:47, Grace Tsai wrote:
Hi, Jon and Bryan,

Thanks for your reply.

So if I have the following hosts now,
(All of them are RHEL6)

GPFS cluster with two gpfs servers:
   hostname: gpfs01
   hostname: gpfs02
Note: This GPFS cluster provides a file system: /gpfs/slac/a/b/

TSM server:
   hotsname: tsmServer

HSM host:
   hostname: hsmA

Host hsmA is a TSM client to tsmServer,
Also
Host hsmA is a GPFS client to gpfs01/gpfs02 and has access to
/gpfs/slac/a/b/ file system

The goal now is to migrate files in /gpfs/slac/a/b/ to TSM via the gpfs
client hsmA

What HSM components should be installed on host hsmA?

The TSM HSM RPM's for what ever version of TSM you are running on the TSM server.

Then schedule some downtime on the file system as you will have to umount it to enable DMAPI/HSM on the GPFS file system it :-)

But really HSM on GPFS is something of a "minority sport". If you need to ask thes basic questions I would seriously consider whether it is a good idea. My experience is that HSM on GPFS makes the whole thing an order of magnitude flakier and there is a whole pile of "gotchas" that just don't apply if you are running a bog standard GPFS file system.

If HSM is an absolute requirement then you need to go on some training first. In my view you need to thoroughly understand both TSM and GPFS *BEFORE* you embark down this course.

Personally I would go and by some MD3660f's or MS3260's from Dell; 60 drives in 4U things. Stuff them full of 4TB or larger hard disks whack expansion shelves on them as required, create some dynamic disk pools, stick them in another storage pool and then do some tiering and avoid HSM altogether.

These days HSM only makes sense on upwards of 500TB probably 1PB data on tape and I would imagine that a two GPFS server, one HSM server system is just not of that order of magnitude.


JAB.

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Jonathan A. Buzzard                 Email: jonathan (at) buzzard.me.uk
Fife, United Kingdom.
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