How to label new tapes in IBM TS3500 library?
Hi Pro's, I have 100 new LTO4 tapes that I want to label in my IBM TS3584 SCSI library with TSM v.6.3.4 First of all I inserted all 100 tapes into the I/O station. The library then automatically puts...
View ArticleQuestions about Migrating clients and their passwords
New TSM server is ready. Planning to use 'export node * filedata=n toserver=new_server1' to create my node definitions on the new TSM server. Then follow up with defining the schedule associations....
View ArticleTape drives are unavailable
Hi All, We use data domain VTL libray. TSM Server was rebooted and tape drives device files updated on that day. I could see the all the drives were in polling status. I tried to update all drives and...
View ArticleTSM database size growth
Hi All, We have 45 nodes configured to one TSM server. But the database growth is growing rapidly. It reached 470 GB now. I can see expiration is completing fine everyday.Please advise how to control...
View ArticleSSL on admin port
How do you know if SSL has been enabled on the admin port. What is best practice in terms of client and admin ports and on enabling SSL on them? Thanks for the insight.
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Mount Proxy Issue with TSM4VE
The configuration status of my TSM4VE points to an issue with iSCSI but i am not exactly sure where does it need to be enabled. Is on the server, the proxy or the esxi hosts? Please nay insight would...
View ArticleMigration Script reports as failed
Hi Everyone, I am in the process of trying to clean-up some of the alerts generated by some of our scripts One such alert we receive, is when the Migration script fails, for what I think is where...
View ArticleIFFull vs PeriodicFull
Hello all, can anyone help me to understand benefit of running IFFull+IFIncr in our environment? We are obliged to run weekly full backups of VMs in order to meet RTO (+during DR). What will I gain if...
View ArticleTSM v5.5.5.0 to new hardware
Hi all, We need to move an existing TSM v5.5.5.0 instance from its current Windows 2003 Std SP2 (x32) hardware platform to a new server platform so we can run the upgrade to v6.2 or, preferably, v6.3....
View ArticleANS2600S :Browser trying to establish connection to client
Hi, I am moving the ndmp configuration from windows 2003 server to windows 2008 I have configured and opened local inbound firewall for ports 1581 and 1582 Using the...
View Articleany reason why this command fails TSMDEV> delete filespace TSMDEV 3 NAMET=FSID
Here is the error: TSMDEV> delete filespace TSMDEV 3 NAMET=FSID ANR2022E DELETE FILESPACE: One or more parameters are missing.
View ArticleNDMP error: BAD_MEDIA and requesting ABORT
Hi Pro's I use : TSM 6.3.4, Win2012, Netapp Ontap 8.1.4P2 7-mode, FC attached tape drives configured with datamovers and virtualvolumes. I have some problems with my NDMP backups. I run NDMP backups...
View ArticleTSM Client Install Script
Hi there, Does anyone know how to setup to install & configure TSM 6.x or 7.x automatically through script on windows environment? Thanks, bp
View ArticleSTOR2RRD v1.00 is released - free storage perf monitoring
STOR2RRD ( http://www.stor2rrd.com ) is free storage performance and capacity monitoring tool actually supporting those storages: - IBM SVC - IBM Storwize - IBM DS8000 - IBM DS6800. The new version...
View ArticleTSM DB backup to a NFS mount on a DD990
Good Morning I need help setting up our TSM DB to back up to a NFS mount on a Data Domain DD990. Or SAN zoned disk which wever is better. I also need to be able to access this NFS mount from a new TSM...
View ArticleTS3584 and TSM 6.3.4
hi! ibm wants to replace all the slots in our library (ALMS activated), because the gripper reports errors when picking tapes more and more. they want to remove all tapes, install new slots, and then...
View ArticleInstallation TSM 5 with TS3310
Hi All,We have a TS3310 Library working with TSM 5 release 5 on Win Serv 2003 which is actually unused anymore.I would like to reconfigure it entirely but I don't know where to start and in which...
View ArticleTSM 6.3.3 on SUSE Linux 11 SP3 on Power7
Hi all, Please bear with me on this one. A client of ours is really leaning towards migrating their tsm to suse linux from aix (yes it's true). Anyhow, my problem right now is i'm not really a linux...
View ArticleTSM4VE and scheduling individual clients
I have an ESX cluster with 10 hosts and 300 guests. Today my backup schedule is setup to include all hosts in the cluster with an exclude filter defined for names like DECOM*, TEST* and this is working...
View ArticleDaily restore SQL DB to test
Hi, We need to refresh one of our test SQL every day with current state of the prod DB. I guess Im not the only one who wants to do this. Using tdpsqlc would that be possible? Im dealing with two...
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