Re: Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments
On 13/01/2012 15:03, Rick Adamson wrote: Hi All I installed the TDPVE and it works untill now ok, I managed to backup and restore Full Machine and files with the Mount Utillity, My Env includes 3 VC, and one proxy for now (Physical One), but the VC plugins i installed on a 3 different VM Guests (1 for each VC), im not using Dedupe, because i backed up direct to my DD, and im also not using LanFree, because i have 2 ether channels, and i dont have throughput problems. Until today i dont have any complains beside the complicated Install and all the Proxy nodes u need for each ESX and for all Datamover (all the node in the TSM), But after u done it once, u dont need to do it anymore (and beside of the after u see the ACTLOG it makes sense with all the Selects it runs :-)). Bottom line im very pleased with the solution, my VM admin can schedule backup by him self with the VC, and everything works. I hope that the same solution will be also with Hiper-V, and the will write a new Rebook e.g. TSM in Virtual ENv. -) P.s its work also with ESXi5 . Amos Wanda, In regard to VM versus physical proxy; I tried the VM approach but went physical strictly to remove the backup footprint from the VMware host, thus leaving them for additional VM's (plus not providing my VMW admin the opportunity to complain). The guest VM's and host impact running backups this way is near zero. ~Rick -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Prather, Wanda Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 9:47 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments I too find the VE-book to be terminology-challenged. 1) Why does the doc show a vstorage backup server (the proxy) and also a DP for VMWare Vcenter Plug-in Server. Is there a requirement for these to be 2 different machines? And if so why? 2) VE supposedly takes advantage of the VMWare API to do block-level incrementals, I get that. When you do fulls, is there any performance improvement over the old VCB full backup? Is it still just a case of hauling the entire vmdk file across the network? 3) VDR is able to dedup the fulls. Is VE able to do that, or is the only dedup capability post-process on the TSM storage pool side? 4) The comments here imply you guys see the need for a physical proxy/backup server; the doc says it can be a VM. What up wid dat? What are the cases where you would use a VM as the proxy? Thanks for any insight! Wanda -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Shawn Drew Sent: Monday, January 09, 2012 4:42 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments Answers in-line Regards, Shawn Shawn Drew Internet zfor...@vcu.edu Sent by: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 01/09/2012 03:35 PM Please respond to ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To ADSM-L cc Subject Re: [ADSM-L] Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments Some questions that we could not easily glean answer from the docs: - I think the current vocabulary is in question. it seems to be called a backup server but that confuses it with the TSM server, I think. It used to be called a backup proxy, so I may use that word instead. It is basically a media server. 1. What are the specs/requirements for the vStorage/Backup Server that we will have to build? - This is in there under chapter 2. Basically a physical win2008/2003 server. or a linux server, although I believe linux support (for a backup proxy) is brand new in 6.3. I wouldn't mess with it. Other than that, you will need: - at least one HBA for the incoming SAN data if you will be using the SAN for incoming data - at least one HBA for the outgoing SAN data (if you will be using lan-free) - Network connection to the vcenter servers for control. - We are not using lan-free on the outgoing side so we have an additional ethernet connection here. You may be able to replace the incoming with ethernet as well, but not sure. 2. What network requirements are there? Our TSM backup servers are on a completely different subnet then the VMWare servers. Network rules will have to be modified. - SAN - backup proxy needs to be zoned to all the same luns as the ESX servers and your Lan-free tape drives/VTL if applicable - LAN - If you are doing all the data transfer over the san, you will still need network connections for control and the vCenter plugin 3. What, if anything, needs to be installed on the Host or Guest systems? - Nothing on the Guest. The Host (im assuming you mean the backup proxy), TSM client, TSM for VE (which includes the recovery agent and vcenter plugin) 4. What do I need to do TSM server-wise? - Nothing special. TSM6+ is needed for the Vcenter plugin to work properly and the subcommand scheduling. You will have to register the assign proxynode access as described in the
Re: Tape or NFS? (DataDomain specifically)
Hi, Im also using DD, My Major Pools and Clients Are running on VTL, my small Envs run on NFS My Opinion is to use VTL although EMC said NFS, because the implementation, but beside Timeouts also VTL got is own issues, u can define VTL per initiator, and this is a limit if u r lack of FC adapters, which nfs like said u can define pools, and it much easy to replicate to other DD, if u got good network use NFS, and if u got spare initiators and money :-) use VTL, On 15/11/2011 18:10, Shawn Drew wrote: I ran VTL on a different platform before and now run NFS on data domain. The choice between VTL and NFS really comes down to cost. As far as happiness goes, I was a little happier with VTL due to the short volsers compared to the long names of the file devices. But not $50K happier (or whatever the VTL license is) Other differences are: - ethernet vs fibre-channel (We run on 10gbit cross-over connections, and it's plenty fast) - NFS does allow the concurrent read-access feature TSM has for the file device class - The datadomains have a maximum number of concurrent streams before it starts queueing requests. (the number depends on the model) With a vtl, you could just set the number of virtual tape drives to the number of streams and it will queue in TSM instead of the data domain. This is more of a hassle to deal with if you have multiple instances with no library manager. I don't know if this actually makes a real world difference, but I prefer the idea of TSM queuing instead of the data domain for some reason. - You'll need to maintain a library manager with a VTL I think as far as price/performance goes, NFS will be better and require less management, although pure performance will show that VTL will be faster and might be worth the extra cost for you. (It wasn't for us) PS, there is more discussion on this topic if you search the archive Regards, Shawn Shawn Drew Internet dplafla...@gmail.com Sent by: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 11/15/2011 07:45 AM Please respond to ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To ADSM-L cc Subject [ADSM-L] Tape or NFS? (DataDomain specifically) We've been told by consultants (these particular consultants shouldn't throw stones) that DataDomain customers running TSM are far happier running NFS than VTL, because DDRs are built primarily as file servers and the VTL function is an add-on. I can see the financial motive for staying with NFS (those VTL licenses aren't cheap!), but I'm skeptical about the implication that there's a functional or performance advantage to using NFS over VTL for a TSM server, in our case on AIX. Would anyone who's run both or chosen NFS care to comment? How much does it depend on your infrastructure or your needs for LAN-free? Thanks, Nick This message and any attachments (the message) is intended solely for the addressees and is confidential. If you receive this message in error, please delete it and immediately notify the sender. Any use not in accord with its purpose, any dissemination or disclosure, either whole or partial, is prohibited except formal approval. The internet can not guarantee the integrity of this message. BNP PARIBAS (and its subsidiaries) shall (will) not therefore be liable for the message if modified. Please note that certain functions and services for BNP Paribas may be performed by BNP Paribas RCC, Inc.
Re: Reduce DB in 6.2.2.2
Same as Extend DBSPACE ( Which i tried and workd) to reduce it a procedure like in the Info Center Reducing the size of the database If a significant amount of data has been deleted from the database, consider reducing the database size. 1. Create a file containing a list of directories that represent the new directories. For example, dbdirs.txt. 2. Run a full database backup. For example: backup db devclass=tapeclass type=full 3. Halt the server. 4. Remove the database instance. dsmserv removedb TSMDB1 5. Restore the database specifying the file containing the directories to be used. For example: dsmserv restore db todate=today on=dbdirs.txt 6. Restart the server. On 03/02/2011 19:19, Dave Canan wrote: Alex, is the issue here that the database is not shrinking or is this a question about reorgs? There are currently several APARs against the DB2 V9.7 that will not allow the DB to be reduced when reorgs occur. These will be addressed in a future service level of TSM and DB2. If you have questions about enabling index reorgs, you should contact TSM support for assistance. There are several things to be aware of before index reorgs are enabled, so PLEASE contact them first. Also, if you'd like we could arrange a call here to discuss this further. I realize the time differences involved, but we could arrange something. Let me know. Dave Canan IBM Advanced Technical Support ddcananATUSDOTIBMDOTCOM 916-723-2410 On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 3:32 AM, Alexander Heindl alexander.hei...@generali.at wrote: Hi, I have a TSM-Server instance with a 188 GB Database: Space Used by Database(MB): 188,032 Although deleting several (big) filespaces which are not needed anymore, database ist not shrinking. I thought with 6.1 (an 6.2) this is done automatically? Best Regards, Alex __ Ing. Alexander Heindl Generali IT-Solutions GmbH WIs Kratochwjlestraße 4, 1220 Wien Telefon: +43 (0)1 53401-13160 Fax: +43 1 532 09 49 3160 E-Mail: *alexander.hei...@generali.at*alexander.hei...@generali.at * **http://www.generali.at*http://www.generali.at/ Generali IT-Solutions GmbH, Sitz in Wien registriert beim Handelsgericht Wien unter FN 215738 m DVR-Nr.: 266. Die Gesellschaft gehört zur Unternehmensgruppe der Assicurazioni Generali S.p.A., Triest, eingetragen im Versicherungsgruppenregister der ISVAP unter der Nummer 026. __
Re: TSM v6.2.2.0 database errors
On 30/12/2010 06:36, David E Ehresman wrote: 12/29/2010 22:14:17 ANR0101E admevent.c(1067): Error 16 opening table Client.Eventrules. (SESSION: 112837) Hi i got this error 12/29/2010 22:14:17 ANR0101E admevent.c(1067): Error 16 opening table Client.Eventrules. (SESSION: 112837) When i used dedupe , i stop using clients dedupe because im using DD and the errors gone, Amos
Re: De-dup ratio's
Jim, My DD is Configured as VTL, also my PT is configured as VTL, with Clariion (Sata Disks), with the PT i managed to reach 150 MBs, while with th DD (670) i managed to reach 740 MBs ( Read and write), while in backup i get 450 MBs (From one TSM server, and another 350 MBs from the second), and im not using LAN Free Backup.( Most of my backup are with Etherchannels (for backup and NDMP)) If u want to compare between DD and PT, u need to compare Apple to Apple, in my case since the PT is 3 Year Old (version 1.2.5), My Comparison is Apple to a Cherri :-), because the DD faster 4 times than the PT (DD Use also Sata Disks), If u want to compare them PT7650 is like the DD880 ( Both are cluster aware, there Capacity its Huge) If for example u reach the MAX iops in the DD or the PT, u can add another one and increase the Throughput, PT was born as VTL DD was born as Cifs/NFS (With Dedupe), the PT run his Defrag Process in the Background all the Time, with DD u need to schedule it and while its running it consumes CPU(Also with the Replication Process), With PT u can use most of the Disks Vendors, with DD u have there own disks (because its not Gateway anymore), and there are a lot on comparisons issues between them. But in the Bottom Line the DD Compress Factor Higher that the PT,and most of my colleagues are working with DD and few with PT, and until now im very pleased with my DD (Testings) , it serves my 2 TSM Main Servers(every Weekend i backed up 20 TB), and another DPM Server (Microsoft, i use it only for the Hiper-V), and i also create a CIFS Share to the Veeam Backup for Vmware (although im using VCB with TSM). If u will need more information i will be pleased to help u Amos On 12/11/2010 20:37, Schneider, Jim wrote: Amos, We are looking into purchasing one of these options. Do have your DataDomain device configured at disk or VTL? Thank you, Jim Schneider -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Amos ADSM Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 12:25 PM To: ADSM-L@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] De-dup ratio's Hi All, Im Using in the last 3 years Protectier, and most of my backup are SQL Servers ans some ESX Servers, i get 3.9-4 Dedupe ratio, in good times i manage to get to 6, In the last 3 Weeks, im running DataDomain , and i get ratio 9 and its just the begining :-) ( I hope) In My Site we got 11 TSM Servers, 3 in the Center with more that 1000 Clients (Aix,Linux SQL) and My Diff Backup for my SQL Servers its almost 2 TB a day, and my DD Writes only 100 Gb. Amos On 12/11/2010 18:23, Druckenmiller, David wrote: I'm curious what others are seeing for de-dup ratios for various methods. We're using IBM's ProtecTier for our TSM (5.5) primary pools and only see about a 4 to 1 ratio. This is less than half of what IBM was projecting for us. We have roughly 400 clients (mostly Windows servers) totalling about 135TB of data. Biggest individual uses are Exchange and SQL Dumps. Just wondering what others might be getting for other appliances or with TSM v6? Thanks Dave - CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email and any attachments may contain confidential information that is protected by law and is for the sole use of the individuals or entities to which it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender by replying to this email and destroying all copies of the communication and attachments. Further use, disclosure, copying, distribution of, or reliance upon the contents of this email and attachments is strictly prohibited. To contact Albany Medical Center, or for a copy of our privacy practices, please visit us on the Internet at www.amc.edu.
Re: De-dup ratio's
Hi All, Im Using in the last 3 years Protectier, and most of my backup are SQL Servers ans some ESX Servers, i get 3.9-4 Dedupe ratio, in good times i manage to get to 6, In the last 3 Weeks, im running DataDomain , and i get ratio 9 and its just the begining :-) ( I hope) In My Site we got 11 TSM Servers, 3 in the Center with more that 1000 Clients (Aix,Linux SQL) and My Diff Backup for my SQL Servers its almost 2 TB a day, and my DD Writes only 100 Gb. Amos On 12/11/2010 18:23, Druckenmiller, David wrote: I'm curious what others are seeing for de-dup ratios for various methods. We're using IBM's ProtecTier for our TSM (5.5) primary pools and only see about a 4 to 1 ratio. This is less than half of what IBM was projecting for us. We have roughly 400 clients (mostly Windows servers) totalling about 135TB of data. Biggest individual uses are Exchange and SQL Dumps. Just wondering what others might be getting for other appliances or with TSM v6? Thanks Dave - CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email and any attachments may contain confidential information that is protected by law and is for the sole use of the individuals or entities to which it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender by replying to this email and destroying all copies of the communication and attachments. Further use, disclosure, copying, distribution of, or reliance upon the contents of this email and attachments is strictly prohibited. To contact Albany Medical Center, or for a copy of our privacy practices, please visit us on the Internet at www.amc.edu.
Re: TSM 6.2 server AIX installation issue
On 17/06/2010 17:02, Pawlos Gizaw wrote: Has anyone tried to install TSM 6.2 on AIX (6.1). I keep getting an error message that Content is not allowed in prolog. I tried silent and wizard but got same message. The systems has all the minimum requirements. Thu Jun 17 00:51:33.448 EDT 2010 : FINEST : User interface type:SWING (from com.ibm.ac.coi.ext.ia.plugin.COIProcessInventorySteps.install) Thu Jun 17 00:51:46.063 EDT 2010 : SEVERE : Aborting installer: Content is not allowed in prolog. (from com.ibm.ac.coi.ext.ia.plugin.COIProcessInventorySteps.install). Thanks Pawlos Hi, I installed TSM 6.2 on AIX 6.1, i followed the Update Manaual from 5.5 to 6.2, i update is on the Same Server, and i also have Minimux Req, The most importent thing its the DB2 enviroument and the Premissions to user root in the DB2, and that u will have space in your filesystems for all the logs,db etc... Most important check that the iocp0 in the system is avialable Amos
Re: upgrade to 6.2
On 10/06/2010 15:25, Hana Darzi wrote: Hello all When upgrading from 6.1.3 to 6.2 windows 64X server I ask a user name and password for instance db2 service. I use the ‘Local System Account’ . This account have no password how I can go on with the upgrade Without giving password during installation Thank you, Hana _ Hana Shparber (Darzi) Computation Center, Ben-Gurion University Email: ha...@bgu.ac.ilmailto:ha...@bgu.ac.il Phone: 972-8-6461160, Mobile: 972-52-6839378 _ Hana, Its very strange, i upgrade from 5.5 to 6.2 and yesterday to 6.2.1, during the install, DB2 asks for is own account and its written in the Manual, thus i dont know how u manage to install the TSM server with service account, without an error, usually the default account its tsminst1, I assume but i didnt test it, manipulate the DB2 database(Export,Import backup and restore to other server),and them create it with a new User Amos
Re: TDP Microsoft Exchange 2010 with lanfree
On 08/06/2010 22:12, Del Hoobler wrote: Hi Robert, As far as error: Unable to obtain model type for '\\.\Tape4', rc = 46 This is not my area of expertise... if the ADSM-L community cannot help, please open a call with IBM support. Thanks, Del ADSM: Dist Stor ManagerADSM-L@vm.marist.edu wrote on 06/08/2010 12:54:47 PM: [image removed] Re: TDP Microsoft Exchange 2010 with lanfree Robert Ouzen to: ADSM-L 06/08/2010 12:55 PM Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor ManagerADSM-L@vm.marist.edu Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Yep ... it's what I did I configure the option file for the Tsm remote client agent with the enable feature and delete those line for the TDP option. But still got the error Thanks Robert -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Del Hoobler Sent: יום ג 08 יוני 2010 18:00 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TDP Microsoft Exchange 2010 with lanfree Robert, Please read my response carefully again. It is NOT the DP/Exchange options file that you need to update. You need to configure the options file for the TSM Remote Client Agent. Thanks, Del ADSM: Dist Stor ManagerADSM-L@vm.marist.edu wrote on 06/08/2010 10:53:47 AM: [image removed] Re: TDP Microsoft Exchange 2010 with lanfree Robert Ouzen to: ADSM-L 06/08/2010 10:54 AM Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor ManagerADSM-L@vm.marist.edu Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Hi Del Thanks for the reply .. I already add the option lines to enable lanfree in the dsm.opt client (by the way did I need those lines in the dsm.opt on the TDP side ) But got the error: Unable to obtain model type for '\\.\Tape4', rc = 46 I think is a driver problem, I install the device driver from the installation package 5.5.2.0. It install the storage agent under program files(x86) as an 32bit application and the driver install is LTO tape drive , my tapes are virtual tapes library under Data Domain. In my previous TDP it's worked fine Thanks, Robert -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Del Hoobler Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 5:20 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TDP Microsoft Exchange 2010 with lanfree Robert, For VSS backups, the Windows BA Client performs the data transfer. You must configure the Windows BA Client options file, (more specifically, the option file for the TSM Remote Client Agent aka DSMAGENT) for LANFREE communications. Thanks, Del ADSM: Dist Stor ManagerADSM-L@vm.marist.edu wrote on 06/08/2010 09:42:40 AM: [image removed] TDP Microsoft Exchange 2010 with lanfree Robert Ouzen to: ADSM-L 06/08/2010 09:48 AM Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor ManagerADSM-L@vm.marist.edu Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager Hi to all I implant today the new TDP for Microsoft Exchange server 2010 version 6.1.2.0 on an OS Windows server 2008 R2 Enterprise 64Bit, succeed to install and configure correctly with the new configuration like: Grant proxynode and new VSS feature (running by the TSM client). My next stage was to implant lanfree backup, my TSM server version is 5.5.2.0 and my Storage agent is 5.5.2.0. I add in my dsm.opt on the TDP side the lines: ENABLELANFREEYES Lanfreecommmethodtcpip lanfreetcpserveraddress 132.74.XX.XXX lanfreetcpport1502 I had a HBA and configure it with a correct zone and see the correct VTL drives of my Data Domain VTL in the device manager. Configure paths on the TSM server side as: Source Name: EXCHSRVB_SA Source Type: SERVER Destination Name: VTLDRV12 Destination Type: DRIVE Library: DDVTL Node Name: Device: \\.\Tape4 External Manager: LUN: Initiator: 0 Directory: On-Line: Yes Last Update by (administrator): ROBERT Last Update Date/Time: 06/07/2010 20:57:15 I validate the connection with validate lanfree command successfully: ANR0387I Evaluating node EXCHSRVB_DB using storage agent EXCHSRVB_SA for LAN-free data movement. Node Storage Operation Mgmt Class Destination LAN-Free Explanation Name Agent Name Name capable? - - -- - EXCH- EXCHSRV- BACKUPMGWEXCHAN- VTL_EXCHANGE Yes SRV- B_SA GECOPY B_DB EXCH-
