Re: Virtual volumes question

2008-06-25 Thread Laura Buckley
Hi Skylar, I'm confused by your question. You say you are doing migration from the target to the source. But that doesn't make sense. In server-to-server virtual volumes, data is sent from the source to the target. Your configuration shows that you have a storage pool called ONSITE-MALI on the

Virtual volumes question

2008-06-25 Thread Skylar Thompson
I'm testing out virtual volumes at our site, and I'm trying to figure out how to get virtual volumes deleted from the target server. When I do migration on the source server from the target server, the occupancy on the source server goes down but the target server stays the same. I'm using a DISK

Re: Restore performance puzzler

2008-06-25 Thread Shawn Drew
yep, I did consider these things, but I double checked: - 100/Full - The files were compressed when they were backed up, The client is not being taxed decompressing the data stream at all (currently 89% idle) - we started with one thread, but are up to 4 now. Each one is performing pretty pathetic

Re: Restore performance puzzler

2008-06-25 Thread Ribeiro, Ricardo
Shawn, Based on this information it appears that the VTL is only attached to the TSM server correct? So, the data to the client is not going to be as fast as restoring to the TSM server. Things to consider are... What is the LAN speed and duplex settings for the client? How is the LAN traffic when

Restore performance puzzler

2008-06-25 Thread Shawn Drew
5.4.1 AIX Server 5.3.4 AIX 5.1 Client Performing a 12 gB restore. (6x2gB files) The restore is performing at a rate of about 250-500 KB/s with bursts up to a whopping 750KB/s (Looking at the VTL drive monitor) If we perform the restore locally to the TSM server's file system, it is fast. (20-3

Re: Server stgpool volumes and GPT

2008-06-25 Thread Henrik Vahlstedt
Thanks for the answer Skylar! Offset, alligment or diskcrossing problem is an Intel architecture problem hitting both Linux and Windows. In Windows you can use diskpar or diskpart to overcome it. EMC have an white paper "Aligning GPT Basic and Dynamic Disks For Microsoft Windows 2003". However,