DataDomain - vTape stuck on vDrive. Can't move it ?

2012-07-11 Thread Costa, Justino
Hi All, Sorry for the long debug I wonder if anyone had this issue with TSM: 6.2.3.100 and DD890: OS 5.1.0.5-269447 1) TSM Server's happily writing to a vTape 2) At the same time, the VTL pool replication pair is setup on DD console, causing this series of error messages on

Re: RMAN direct to NFS

2012-07-11 Thread Richard Rhodes
I don't know if we'd have gone with VTLs if we were architecting this from scratch, but as we went from tape-based to virtual technology, the VTL interfaces made the transition logically simpler, and it appeased the one team member who has an irrational hatred of NFS. We're now under pressure to

Re: RMAN direct to NFS

2012-07-11 Thread Shawn Drew
I haven't tried it myself on a file pool, but couldn't you update the device class of the datadomain pool to have a mountlimit of 0 ? - No way to take the DD file pool offline. You can mark it unavailable, but that only effects client sessions, not reclamation or other internal processes.

Re: RMAN direct to NFS

2012-07-11 Thread Schneider, Jim
One Data Domain Fun Fact for you: When you upgrade the DD OS you will have to remount all of the NFS shares on the servers that write to it directly. Jim Schneider -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Richard Rhodes Sent: Wednesday,

Re: RMAN direct to NFS

2012-07-11 Thread Hart, Charles A
Hi Nick 1) We only carve out 1 vtape lib per 7650 - we then share that library with 2-4 TSM instances on one AIX server, some installations will have two 7650's to a aix p6 650. 2) 128 Drives was just a number - We get close 60-80 Drives as our DB backups larger than 2gig goes to vtl so we get