Overview of Mainlines Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Assessment
Understand current TSM capabilities Uncover operational issues Forecast future TSM infrastructure costs Establish an operational baseline for TSM and give it a scoring Ensure recovery objectives are being met for operational and disaster recovery Determine if a hardware refresh is necessary
TSM Assessment Benefits:
Demonstrate how new technologies may help your TSM environment: Virtual Tape Libraries Hardware Data De-duplication New TSM 6.1 Operation Enhancements: Database upgrade to DB2 Software based Data De-duplication Enhanced operational reporting TSM Assessment Benefits (continued):
Develop a strategy for upgrading to TSM v6 Downtime required for upgrading from TSM v5 Alternatives to not having upgrade downtime Moving or sharing data between TSM v5 and v6 environments TSM client and TDP migration TSM Assessment Benefits (continued):
Conduct an onsite interview to understand the following: Pain points Future growth expectations Skills DR preparedness Review SLAs Future requirements like compliance and archiving And more
TSM Assessment Process:
Run a non-intrusive query of the TSM database that is analyzed by a special tool from Mainline. The tool will generate reports for the following: Check data throughputs Plot administrative schedules Plot backup schedules Review configuration Review capacities And more
TSM Assessment Process (continued): Disk Pool Capacity = .5TB Daily I/O Summary 0 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 6000 7000 8000 9000 1 2 _ 2 5 _ 2 0 0 8 1 2 _ 2 7 _ 2 0 0 8 1 2 _ 2 9 _ 2 0 0 8 1 2 _ 3 1 _ 2 0 0 8 1 _ 2 _ 2 0 0 9 1 _ 4 _ 2 0 0 9 1 _ 6 _ 2 0 0 9 1 _ 8 _ 2 0 0 9 1 _ 1 0 _ 2 0 0 9 1 _ 1 2 _ 2 0 0 9 1 _ 1 4 _ 2 0 0 9 1 _ 1 6 _ 2 0 0 9 1 _ 1 8 _ 2 0 0 9 1 _ 2 0 _ 2 0 0 9 1 _ 2 2 _ 2 0 0 9 Date G B y t e s INCR_DBBACKUP FULL_DBBACKUP STGPOOL BACKUP OFFSITE RECLAMATION RECLAMATION MIGRATION NAS Backup to TSM Storage ARCHIVE BACKUP TSM Server Daily I/O Throughput EXAMPLE I/O Summary 0 50 100 150 200 250 0:00 2:00 4:00 6:00 8:00 10:00 12:00 14:00 16:00 18:00 20:00 22:00 Time M B y t e s / s e c INCR_DBBACKUP FULL_DBBACKUP STGPOOL BACKUP OFFSITE RECLAMATION RECLAMATION MIGRATION NAS Backup to TSM Storage ARCHIVE BACKUP Disk Pool Migrations During Backups. Admin processing overlap of Storage Pool Backups TSM Server Hourly I/O Throughput - EXAMPLE Node Name 1+ TB ORA5IXB 39889.1 CD0012 23998.6 HR9930 14944.4 ORA3201 12610.3 EXCH344 11391.3 MSQL0SP 10961.7 CKP9332 9823.5 PRL88901 8829.4 SQL9R2 7802.5 CDS9003 6251.8 PRL97789 5861.0 R2TY663 1877.2 IMAG63378 1671.7 PL1TY88 1628.8 RDS990A 1469.4 RDAC776A 1405.4 DL776A6 1203.1 CD7789 1177.3 TSM Nodes with 1TB + Occupancy - EXAMPLE Average Drive Write Rates 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 DR_110 DR_101 DR_102 DR_111 DR_112 DR_106 DR_107 DR_108 DR_109 Drive MB/s Minimum Speed of LTO 3 and 4 Tape Drives TSM Storage Pool Migration (Writes) - EXAMPLE Thank you Knowledge is POWER at: Mainlines Knowledge Center