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Configuring the tape library devices on Linux

After installing the required device drivers for medium changer and drive, we need to configure tape

Library with TSM Server. There is need to figure out the device IDs for respective devices so that Library

can be defind in TSM.

In Windows server, there is a command utility “tsmdlst,” which lists all the devices with their IDs.

The same can be done in Linux TSM server with “Autoconf” utility located at ‘/opt/tivoli/tsm/devices/bin’.

If “Autoconf” utility is not working, you need to define library manually in the TSM server as described

below.

Note:

Please see following link for more details –

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/tividd/td/ITSML/GC23-4692-02/en_US/HTML/anrlqs52254.htm

To configure the TSM device drivers for selected tape drives and libraries, do the following:

1.

Verify that the device is connected to your system, and is powered on and active.

2.

Ensure that the TSM device driver package (TIVsm-tsmscsi-x.x.x-x) is installed for your

corresponding architecture.

3.

Copy the two sample configuration files that are located in the installation directory from

mt.conf.smp and lb.conf.smp to mt.conf and lb.conf, respectively:

For drives:

> cp /opt/tivoli/tsm/devices/bin/mt.conf.smp /opt/tivoli/tsm/devices/bin/mt.conf

For libraries:

> cp /opt/tivoli/tsm/devices/bin/lb.conf.smp /opt/tivoli/tsm/devices/bin/lb.conf

4.

Edit the mt.conf and lb.conf. Add one stanza (as shown in the example at the top of the file) for

each SCSI target ID and LUN combination for which you want the device driver to probe for

supported tape drives, and for each autochanger device in the system that you want the server to

use.

5.

To load the device driver, run the tsmscsi script from the device driver installation directory.

> cd /opt/tivoli/tsm/devices/bin ./tsmscsi

Then all the devices will be listed in following locations:

TSM drives /dev/tsmscsi/mt#

IBM drives /dev/IBMtape#

TSM Library /dev/tsmscsi/lb#

Section	Page
1 Installing and configuring the DR Series system	5
1.1 Creating a container (NFS/CIFS)	8
1.2 Creating a VTL container with an iSCSI connection	10
2 Configuring IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for CIFS & NFS target containers	13
2.1 Configuring the device class for CIFS & NFS protocols	13
2.2 Configuring the storage pool for CIFS & NFS protocols	16
2.3 Creating a policy domain for the backup job	19
2.4 Creating client node and backup sets	23
3 Creating and configuring iSCSI target container(s) for TSM	25
3.1 Configuring the iSCSI initiator	25
3.1.1 Configuring ISCSI initiator for Windows	25
3.1.2 Configuring the iSCSI initiator – Linux	29
3.2 Configuring DR Series system VTL for Windows and Linux TSM servers	30
3.2.1 Configuring the DR Series system VTL for Windows	30
3.2.1.1 Define library	30
3.2.1.2 Define library path	30
3.2.1.3 Define drive	30
3.2.1.4 Define drive path	30
3.2.1.5 Audit the library	30
3.2.1.6 Check in the library volumes	31
3.2.2 Configuring the DR Series system VTL for Linux	31
3.2.2.1 Define library	31
3.2.2.2 Define library path	31
3.2.2.3 Define drive	31
3.2.2.4 Define drive path	31
3.2.2.5 Audit the library	31
3.2.2.6 Checkin the library volumes	31
3.3 Configuring the device class for iSCSI VTL	32
3.4 Configuring the storage pool for iSCSI VTL	33
3.4.1 Adding volumes to a library	35
3.4.2 Adding volumes to a storage pool	39
3.5 Creating the policy domain for iSCSI VTL	41
3.6 Creating the client node for iSCSI VTL	41
4 Using the Backup & Archive GUI	42
5 Setting up the DR Series system cleaner	43
6 Monitoring deduplication, compression, and performance	44
A Configuring CIFS authentication	45
B Best practices/considerations	47
B.1 Deduplication	47
B.2 Compression	47
B.3 Encryption	47
B.4 Space reclamation	47

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