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Workspace Storage Protect Family
Categories Spectrum Protect (Server)
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 11, 2012

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NAS: NFS support for Random Volumes

Our customer wants to have support for random volumes over NFS.
They are using two NAS and both are replicated via Storage Subsystem, then the file pool creates a lot of problems because of reclamation, each time TSM reclaims, the pools move a lot of information between volumes and the replication between Storage subsystems is affected to replica.

Idea priority High
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jun 12, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Storage
    Product - Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Family

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Tivoli
    Product family - Storage
    Product - Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Family

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 27, 2012

    To use replication services reliably and to maintain the order of writes across various files used by TSM, there are certain requirements are needed on how to configure their storage and file system software to achieve random access on NAS storage. We take data protection very seriously and data integrity is above all, and there is nothing in TSM that prevents use of NAS storage for random-access storage pool, provided that writes are actually performed to persistent storage. We have published guidelines on how to configure NFS and file system software so random access is supported and to ensure our customers stay protected without any data loss. This requirement is true for other vendors as well:

    http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=663&context=SSGSG7&q1=1205074&uid=swg21205074&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&lang=en

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