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Before contacting IBM Software Support, your company must have an active IBM software maintenance contract, and you must be authorized to submit problems to IBM. The type of software maintenance contract that you need depends on the type of product you have: v For IBM distributed software products (including, but not limited to, Tivoli, ® ® ® ® Lotus , and Rational products, as well as DB2 and WebSphere products that ® ® ® run on Windows or UNIX operating systems), enroll in Passport
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v What software versions were you running when the problem occurred? v Do you have logs, traces, and messages that are related to the problem symptoms? IBM Software Support is likely to ask for this information. v Can the problem be re-created? If so, what steps led to the failure? v Have any changes been made to the system? (For example, hardware, operating system, networking software, and so on.) v Are you currently using a workaround for this problem? If so, please be prepa
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Changes for IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Version 5 This section summarizes changes that have been made to the Tivoli Storage Manager product and this publication. | Changes for IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Version 5 Release 4 — | January 2007 | The following changes have been made to the product for this edition: | Query Disk Space in a FILE Device Class | The new command QUERY DIRSPACE lets you display the amount of | total and available disk space for each directory in a FILE device clas
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| Minimum I/O to Volumes Associated with FILE Device Class | In Tivoli Storage Manager Version 5.3, the minimum I/O to a volume | associated with a FILE device class is 256 KB, regardless how much data is | being written to the volume. For example, if you are backing up one | 500-byte object, it will take 256 KB of I/O to store it on the volume. In | terms of performance, the size of the I/O for a volume associated with a | FILE device class has the greatest impact when backing up or arc
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overview of this function. For full details, refer to the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for z/OS Administrator’s Guide and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for z/OS Administrator’s Reference. Product Packaging and Name Changes Product packaging and names for Tivoli Storage Manager have been updated. See www.ibm.com/software/tivoli/solutions/storage/ for complete details. Configuration Information Worksheets Client and server configuration information worksheets have been added to the Planning
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Chapter 1. Storage Agent Overview IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Storage Area Networks is a feature of Tivoli Storage Manager that enables LAN-free client data movement. This feature allows the client system to directly write data to, or read data from, storage devices attached to a storage area network (SAN), instead of passing or receiving the information over the network. Data movement is thereby off-loaded from the LAN and from the Tivoli Storage Manager server, making network bandw
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Client Storage Agent installed Tivoli Storage Manager Server Library Control Client Metadata LAN Client Library Data Control SAN File Library Tape Library Figure 1. SAN Data Movement. Solid lines indicate data movement. Broken lines indicate movement of control information and metadata. Tivoli Storage Manager Server Library Control Client Client Metadata LAN Client Data Client Client Client Library Data with Control StorageAgent SAN File Library Tape Library Figure 2. SAN Data Movement wit
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Tivoli® Storage Manager for SAN
for AIX
Version 5.4
Storage Agent User’s Guide
SC32-0129-00
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Tivoli® Storage Manager for SAN for AIX Version 5.4 Storage Agent User’s Guide SC32-0129-00
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Note! Before using this information and the product it supports, be sure to read the general information under Appendix C, “Notices,” on page 53. | Fifth Edition (January 2007) | This edition applies to Version 5.4 of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for SAN for AIX (program numbers 5608-HSM, | 5608-ISM, 5608-ISX, 5608-SAN, and 5608-ARM) and to any subsequent releases until otherwise indicated in new | editions or technical newsletters. | Changes since the December 2004 edition are marked with
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Contents | Step 4. (z/OS only) Formatting Volumes for About This Book . . . . . . . . . . .v || LAN-free Data Movement . . . . . . . . .28 How to Use This Book . . . . . . . . . . .v Step 5. Starting the Storage Agent and Verifying the Where to Look for Information . . . . . . . .vi LAN-free Configuration . . . . . . . . . .28 IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Publications . . .vi Step 5.1 Start the Storage Agent . . . . . .28 Tivoli Technical Training . . . . . . . . . viii Step
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About This Book This guide is for administrators who install and use the storage agent component ® ® of the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Storage Area Networks product (referred to as storage agent throughout this publication). It provides: v An overview of LAN-free data transfer v Detailed explanations for installing, configuring, and using the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (Tivoli Storage Manager) client and storage agent, and the Tivoli Storage Manager server You should be familia
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Where to Look for Information The following information describes the service that IBM provides for Tivoli Storage Manager and tells you where to look for more information about Tivoli Storage Manager products. IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Publications This section lists publications in the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager library and related documents. It also describes how to access Tivoli publications online and how to order Tivoli publications. IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Library The follo
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Publication Title Order Number IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Using the Application Program Interface SC32-0147 The following table lists publications for application protection products. Order Publication Title Number IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Application Servers: Data Protection for SC32-9075 WebSphere Application Server Installation and User’s Guide IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for Databases: Data Protection for Microsoft SQL SC32-9059 Server Installation and User’s Guide IBM Ti
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Title Order Number IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Tape System 3590 Operator Guide GA32-0330 IBM Magstar 3494 Tape Library Dataserver Operator Guide GA32-0280 IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Tape System 3592 Operator Guide GA32-0465 || IBM TotalStorage SAN File System Administrator’s Guide and Reference GA27-4317 || IBM Tivoli SANergy Administrator’s Guide GC26-7389 Accessing Publications Online The product CD contains the publications that are in the product library. The format of the publi
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Searching knowledge bases If you have a problem with your IBM software, begin by searching the available knowledge bases to determine whether the resolution to your problem is already documented. Search the information center on your local system or network: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager provides an information center on a CD. You can run the information center from the CD, or copy it to your local computer or an intranet server. You can use the search function of this information center
