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Workspace Spectrum Protect Snapshot
Categories Flashcopy Manager
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 18, 2014

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FCM4Unix: Oracle ASM "asm_diskstring" to be used is not documented

The FCM4Unix documentation does not state that FCM requires the usage of asm_diskstring=ORCL:* while adding ASMlib Disks to disk groups and during disk discovery. If ORCL:* is not used or the asm_diskstring contains other filters ASMlib disks might be added into disk groups with a path name that FCM can not detect (FMM1219E).

Please extend the documentation and/or make FCM more tolerant regarding the path names for ASMlib disks.

Thank you :-)

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    |     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 FlashCopy Manager

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Tivoli
    Product family - Storage
    Product - Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager

  • Guest
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    |     Oct 3, 2014

    This has been documented in the FCM pre-installation checklist under section 5.2 Environment Requirements, pre-requisite 5.2.6: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21650875&aid=1.

  • Guest
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    |     Apr 4, 2014

    Thank you for you request. According Oracle documentation available from http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/install.112/e41961/storage.htm#CWLIN293, it is Oracle that has the requirement for the specific disk string and not IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager. We will update our documentation to make this better known.

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