Book description
This IBM® Redbooks® publication helps you with the planning, installation, and configuration of the new IBM Spectrum™ Archive (formerly IBM Linear Tape File System™ (LTFS)) Enterprise Edition (EE) V1.2.1.0 for the IBM TS3310, IBM TS3500, and IBM TS4500 tape libraries. IBM Spectrum Archive™ EE enables the use of the LTFS for the policy management of tape as a storage tier in a IBM Spectrum Scale™ (formerly IBM General Parallel File System (IBM GPFS™)) based environment and helps encourage the use of tape as a critical tier in the storage environment. This is the second edition of IBM Spectrum Archive V1.2 (SG24-8333-00) although it is based on the prior editions of IBM Linear Tape File System Enterprise Edition V1.1.1.2: Installation and Configuration Guide, SG24-8143.
IBM Spectrum Archive EE can run any application that is designed for disk files on a physical tape media. IBM Spectrum Archive EE supports the IBM Linear Tape-Open (LTO) Ultrium 7, 6, and 5 tape drives in IBM TS3310, TS3500, and TS4500 tape libraries. Also, IBM TS1140 and IBM TS1150 tape drives are supported in TS3500 and TS4500 tape library configurations.
IBM Spectrum Archive EE can play a major role in reducing the cost of storage for data that does not need the access performance of primary disk. The use of IBM Spectrum Archive EE to replace disks with physical tape in Tier 2 and Tier 3 storage can improve data access over other storage solutions because it improves efficiency and streamlines management for files on tape. IBM Spectrum Archive EE simplifies the use of tape by making it transparent to the user and manageable by the administrator under a single infrastructure.
This publication is intended for anyone who wants to understand more about IBM Spectrum Archive EE planning and implementation. This book is suitable for IBM clients, IBM Business Partners, IBM specialist sales representatives, and technical specialists.
Table of contents
- Front cover
- Notices
- IBM Redbooks promotions
- Preface
- Summary of changes
- Chapter 1. IBM Spectrum Archive Enterprise Edition
- Chapter 2. IBM Spectrum Archive overview
- Chapter 3. Planning
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Chapter 4. Installation
- 4.1 Installing IBM Spectrum Archive EE on a Linux system
- 4.2 Installation prerequisites for IBM Spectrum Archive EE
- 4.3 Installing IBM Spectrum Archive EE
- 4.4 Upgrading the IBM tape library or tape drive firmware
- 4.5 Creating a logical library and defining tape drives
- 4.6 Quick installation guide for IBM Spectrum Archive EE
- Chapter 5. Upgrading from version 1.1.x
- Chapter 6. Configuration
- Chapter 7. Overview of IBM Spectrum Archive Enterprise Edition commands
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Chapter 8. Operations
- 8.1 Overview
- 8.2 Status information
- 8.3 Upgrading components
- 8.4 Starting and stopping IBM Spectrum Archive EE
- 8.5 Tape library management
- 8.6 Tape storage pool management
- 8.7 Migration
- 8.8 Premigration
- 8.9 Preserving file system objects on tape
- 8.10 Restoring non-empty regular files and file system objects from tape
- 8.11 Recall
- 8.12 Repairing files to their resident state
- 8.13 Recovering data from a write-failure tape
- 8.14 Reconciliation
- 8.15 Reclamation
- 8.16 Checking and repairing
- 8.17 Importing and exporting
- 8.18 Drive Role settings for job assignment control
- 8.19 Tape drive intermix support
- 8.20 Write Once Read Many support for IBM TS1140/TS1150 tape drives
- 8.21 Obtaining the location of files and data
- 8.22 Obtaining inventory, job, and scan status
- 8.23 Cleaning up a scan or session
- 8.24 Monitoring the system with SNMP
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Chapter 9. Hints, tips, and preferred practices
- 9.1 Preventing migration of the .SPACEMAN and metadata directories
- 9.2 Maximizing migration performance with redundant copies
- 9.3 Changing the SSH daemon settings
- 9.4 Setting job limits to increase performance with large numbers of jobs
- 9.5 Setting mmapplypolicy options for increased performance
- 9.6 Setting the inode size for the GPFS file system for increased performance
- 9.7 Determining the file states for all files within the GPFS file system
- 9.8 Increasing the default maximum number of inodes in IBM Spectrum Scale
- 9.9 Capturing a core file on RHEL with abrtd
- 9.10 Antivirus considerations
- 9.11 Automatic email notification with rsyslog
- 9.12 Overlapping IBM Spectrum Scale policy rules
- 9.13 Storage pool assignment
- 9.14 Tape cartridge removal
- 9.15 Reusing LTFS formatted tape cartridges
- 9.16 Reusing non-LTFS tape cartridges
- 9.17 Moving tape cartridges between pools
- 9.18 Offline tape cartridges
- 9.19 Scheduling reconciliation and reclamation
- 9.20 License Expiration Handling
- 9.21 Reassigning physical tape cartridges to another logical tape library
- 9.22 Disaster recovery
- 9.23 IBM Spectrum Archive EE problem determination
- 9.24 Collecting IBM Spectrum Archive EE logs for support
- 9.25 Backing up file systems that are not managed by IBM Spectrum Archive EE
- Chapter 10. Use cases
- Chapter 11. Troubleshooting
- Chapter 12. Reference
- Related publications
- Back cover
Product information
- Title: IBM Spectrum Archive Enterprise Edition V1.2.1: Installation and Configuration Guide
- Author(s):
- Release date: August 2016
- Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
- ISBN: 9780738441993
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