Re: Does TSM Have a way to Automatically Determine How many CPU'S aka processors a server has

Thanks for that John Take a look at the latest PVU table. http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/passportadvantage/pvu_licensing_for_customers.html For P7 and Nehalem EX processors the CPU and Core count is not enough, it also depends on how many CPUs the box is *capable* of. I dunno what the

Re: Disk pools on ZFS

Hi Andy I need to set up diskpools for windows directories and SQL Meta data. I have an idea that lots of small entries will be better on diskpool than sequential files. Also sequential files can't reuse space until reclamation is run, which wastes space and uses a lot of machine resources for

TDP client not working

Hi Everyone, I am trying to backup an Exchange instance with the TDP for Exchange client. I have not changed anything with the client, the client scheduler or the schedule itself, but it is not running. It looks like it is getting severed right after it is envoked by the scheduler. Any

Re: TDP client not working

Joni, This may or may not apply to your environment, but we recently encountered a set of backups that had this same connection severed message, and it ended up being the Security group's implementation of a new rule in our Intrusion Prevention System (IPS). Fwiw, Steve Schaub Systems

Re: [adsm] Re: Does TSM Have a way to Automatically Determine How many CPU'S aka processors a server has

Amen! This licensing is KILLING us! On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:19:33 +1200 Steven Harris st...@stevenharris.info wrote: Thanks for that John Take a look at the latest PVU table. http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/passportadvantage/pvu_licensing_for_customers.html For P7 and Nehalem EX

Re: [adsm] Re: Does TSM Have a way to Automatically Determine How many CPU'S aka processors a server has

We were recently offered a capacity based licensing model where it was correlating with the size of our primary storage pools?? Which then can have growth percentages added to it for forward planning. Might be worth asking about that too?? Sounds like a nightmare to manage when you have multiple

How to drop DB2 database.

Hello All, Thanks for your help! I am installing TSM 6.2 on an AIX system, for a client. I got the code installed but the initial database creation got hosed up. I need to drop the existing DB2 database. Does anyone know how to do this in AIX? Regards, Nicholas

Trouble backing up large directory tree

Tsm client 6.2, server v5.5.4. Client os win 2003 server SUSe sles9 under vm 5.3. I have a directory tree, don't know how large, tried a dir/s to get a file count, stopped it after 35 minutes. Getting ans1030e during backup. Have already tried memoryefficientbackup yes in dsm.opt. And,

Re: Trouble backing up large directory tree

If you have problems running dir/s you might have system issues already. Would take a look at the memeff diskcache option, but this will take up some free disk space. http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v1r1/index.jsp?topic=/ com.ibm.itsmfdt.doc/ans5331.htm Regards, K.

Re: Trouble backing up large directory tree

Can you RAR or tar/gzip the entire directory and then backup that one file? Is adding more RAM to the box an option? Some file server optimizations ( not tested by me ): http://msmvps.com/blogs/sp/archive/2009/04/24/windows-file-server-performance-optimization.aspx Ray -Original

Retry Dismount Failure that won't clear

Greetings, I have been through the archives for help with this one, but I still don't have an answer. I support a TSM 5.4.3.0 server running on AIX 5.3ML9. EMC Disk Library for virtual tape, configured as 64 LTO1 tape drives. This server is the library master for both AIX and Windows

Re: [adsm] Re: Does TSM Have a way to Automatically Determine How many CPU'S aka processors a server has

Good day everyone, We actively keep track of the machine types and processors in which we deploy TSM. Which started after an audit. This thread pops up every once in a while and gets more attention than anything I have seen. With that said, I'll offer my .02. We all agree multiple processors

Re: Trouble backing up large directory tree

Where should you go? There has to be a good bar near campus. Start off with an OS family with notoriously slow stat calls, and then add the I/O latency of virtualization? Hey, at least it isn't running under Open Solaris? I would look at turning on journal based backup. To initially establish a

Re: Retry Dismount Failure that won't clear

I would make sure RSM on the Windows host is not grabbing the tape drives. What type of library is being emulated? [RC] From: John D. Schneider john.schnei...@computercoachingcommunity.com To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 04/27/2010 08:25 AM Subject: [ADSM-L] Retry Dismount Failure that won't

Re: Trouble backing up large directory tree

On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:20:44 -0700, Robert Clark robert.cla...@usbank.com said: Where should you go? There has to be a good bar near campus. Yeah, that. But before you go, print out some web pages on Sakai. I have (or once had) the dubious honor of being the admin of the fastest

Backing up Light Speed compressed files

I have never been concerned with compressed files, never used compression on TSM - except on my LTO tapes. Now, we have a new situation. We have had a client with SQL DB and the DBA's do the dumps to disk and I pick up. (Can't use TDP SQL, long story.) The dumps were lately (6) 200 GB files,

Re: Backing up Light Speed compressed files

Are you still trying to compress data that has already been compressed?? If LightSpeed has already compressed it having your drives set to attempt compression will cause your issue. Test it by turning the compression off at the drive level. Thank you, ~Rick Adamson Jax, Florida -Original

Re: Retry Dismount Failure that won't clear

Robert, That's a good thing to bring up, but Removable Storage Manager is Disabled. We are emulating an IBM3584 library, with 64 virtual LTO1 tape drives. We use the IBMTape drivers on Windows, and Atape on AIX. We just upgraded the drivers a few weeks ago. I guess it is conceivable

Re: Backing up Light Speed compressed files

If you are using compression (hardware or other), turn it off for this backup set. Ray -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of David Longo Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 2:44 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Backing up

Re: Retry Dismount Failure that won't clear

What do you have for the library option: RESETDrives Specifies whether the server performs a target reset when the server is restarted or when a library client or storage agent re-connection is established.Note: This parameter only applies to SCSI, 3494, Manual, and ACSLS type libraries. Yes

Re: Retry Dismount Failure that won't clear

Richard, Thanks for your reply. Here is my tape library: tsm: EPIC-TSM00q libr f=d Library Name: CDL-EPC-LIB1 Library Type: SCSI ACS Id: Private Category: Scratch Category: WORM Scratch

Re: Retry Dismount Failure that won't clear

Hi John, On a physical 3584, I would imagine that powercycling the tape drives would clear the SCSI reserve. Or in some of the weird cases, unplugging and plugging back in the fibre cables. The questions were meant to determine if you have access to tapeutil. If you can demonstrate problems

Re: Retry Dismount Failure that won't clear

Hi John, I seem to recall that tapeutil has a clear SCSI reserve command. I also seem to recall that the Windows version fo Atape can be installed in exclusive or non-exclusive mode. If set to exclusive mode by mistake, it may cause the symptom you're seeing? (When I say Atape, I mean lintape,

Re: Backing up Light Speed compressed files

Modern tape drive hardware has compression techniques which are smart enough to avoid issues with data that is already compressed (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_Tape-Open) . I'm not aware of any good reasons to turn off compression in a modern tape drive: it can handle itself.