Re: TSM Dedup stgpool target

2013-11-18 Thread Paul Zarnowski
One other question, if you don't mind Bill: Do you have Copy Storage Pools? If so, are they on tape or file? If tape, is the small volume size on the primary pool an issue? I.e., does TSM optimize output tape mounts? Thanks. ..Paul At 05:48 PM 11/14/2013, Colwell, William F. wrote: Paul,

Re: TSM Dedup stgpool target

2013-11-18 Thread Colwell, William F.
Paul, I describe my copypool setup in a previous reply, last Friday. If you lost it somehow, it is on adsm.org. But quickly, they are on virtual volumes. I have never seen any issues related to the primary pool volume size. - bill -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

TSM VE 6.4

2013-11-18 Thread Ehresman,David E.
Is vSphere 5.5 supported by TSM VE 6.4? If so, can you point me to the relevant documentation? David

Re: TSM VE 6.4

2013-11-18 Thread Underdown,John William
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21647461 Protection for VMware Version 6.4.1 _Supported VMware vSphere versions_ The following VMware vSphere versions are supported: * vSphere 4.1 * vSphere 5.0 * vSphere 5.1 http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21652843 Data

Re: TSM Dedup stgpool target

2013-11-18 Thread Paul Zarnowski
Bill, Are you virtual volumes purely on tape on the target server, or are they fronted by some sort of disk storage pool? I am trying to understand whether a small volume size for the ingest dedup file pool will cause a lot of tape mounts on the copy storage pool during a backup storage pool

Re: TSM Dedup stgpool target

2013-11-18 Thread Colwell, William F.
Paul, the virtual volumes land on a disk buffer in the target server. Actually there are 3 filesystems of raid 5 sata which are round robin'ed as the target; a script updates the devclass directory at midnight. Then the previous days virtual volumes are migrated to tape. My intent is to