Tivoli® Storage
Manager device
support for V7.1 is available. Compatibility, installation, and other
getting-started issues are addressed.
Announcement
Tivoli Storage
Manager device support
for V7.1 is announced as part of the Tivoli Storage
Manager family of
products announcement. The announcement is available at http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi.
See
the announcement for the following information:
- Detailed product description, including descriptions of new functions
- Product-positioning statement
- Packaging and ordering details
- International compatibility information
To search for the product announcement, complete the following
steps:
- Go to the product announcement website at http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi.
- In the Search for field, enter the product
identifier (PID) for your product. The PID for Tivoli Storage Manager is 5608-E01.
- In the Information Type field, select Announcement
letters, and click Search.
- From the Search in list, select Product
Number.
- Optional: In the Refine Your Search pane on the left side of the
window, select the country where you reside.
- In the Sort by section, select Newest
first.
Device driver updates
All
new devices are supported on AIX,
HP-UX, Linux, Solaris, and Windows operating systems unless
indicated otherwise. For complete specifications, see the following
websites:
Device driver requirements
- Host bus adapter requirements
- For best results, connect tape drives and tape libraries to the
system on their own host bus adapter. Do not share the host bus adapter
with other device types, such as DISK or CD.
- Maximum number of devices that are supported by Tivoli Storage
Manager device drivers
- For information about the maximum number of devices that Tivoli Storage
Manager device drivers
can support on each operating system, see Technote 1364225.
- Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) device support
- SAS devices can be used on some operating systems and architectures.
For information about operating systems and architectures for SAS
devices, see Technote 1396706.
- Core mode support for Windows Server
2008 R2 and Windows Server
2012
- The Server Core option is supported for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012. For information about
configuring devices in core mode, see Technote 1320150.
- Tivoli Storage
Manager passthru
driver support for HP-UX 11i version 3
- For information about configuring devices for the Tivoli Storage
Manager passthru
driver on HP-UX, see Techdoc 7011793.
- Support for the esctl SCSI pass-through driver on HP-UX
- The Tivoli Storage
Manager passthru
device driver supports the esctl SCSI pass-through driver on HP-UX
11i version 3 for the IA-64 architecture. For information about how
to reconfigure devices that are controlled by the Tivoli Storage
Manager passthru
driver on HP-UX 11i version 3 IA-64, see Technote 1383169.
- Running the Tivoli Storage
Manager passthru
driver with a non-root user ID on HP-UX
- Use option -g or -a of the device autoconf utility
to ensure that non-root users can use devices that are configured
with the Tivoli Storage
Manager passthru
driver. Use option -g to add read and write permissions
for groups to Tivoli Storage
Manager device
files. Use option -a to add read and write permissions
for all users to Tivoli Storage
Manager device
files.
- Optical devices on Oracle Solaris
- On Oracle Solaris, if the Volume Management daemon (vold) is enabled,
it can manage and control the optical devices that are used by the Tivoli Storage
Manager server.
To prevent the Volume Management daemon from managing removable disks,
including optical devices, comment out the following line in the /etc/vold.conf file:
use
rmdisk drive /dev/rdsk/c*s2 dev_rmdisk.so rmdisk%d
You
can also modify the /etc/vold.conf file to ensure
that specific devices that are not used by the Tivoli Storage
Manager server can
be used by the Volume Management daemon. For more information, see
the man page for vold.conf.
- Emulex HBA driver for Oracle Solaris SPARC
- To avoid Tivoli Storage
Manager server
hangs, install the latest level of the Emulex HBA driver on Oracle
Solaris SPARC. For more information, see Technote 1217457.
- Running the Tivoli Storage
Manager passthru driver with a non-root user ID on Linux operating systems
- For information about how a non-root user can use devices with
the Tivoli Storage
Manager passthru
driver on Linux, see Technote 1321130. Use option -g or -a of
the device autoconf utility to ensure that non-root
users can use devices that are configured with the Tivoli Storage
Manager passthru
driver. Use option -g to add read and write permissions
for groups to the SCSI generic driver (sg) device files. Use option -a to
add read and write permissions for all users to the sg device files.
Library information
- IBM® Tivoli Storage Manager Extended Edition is
required for a library with greater than four drives or greater than
48 storage slots.
- The element addresses of the storage slots might not directly
correspond to the storage slot numbers. This fact is important because
the Tivoli Storage Manager
server always references storage slots by element addresses, not storage
slot numbers. For element addresses, see the library configuration
page for each library.
- For a library with multiple drives, a drive element address is
required for the DEFINE and UPDATE DRIVE commands.
However, if the library reports drive serial numbers, you can specify
ELEMENT=AUTODETECT, and the element address is not required.
- For the procedure to configure the autochanger and each drive
in the library separately, see Configuring
and managing storage devices.
Updates, limitations, and known problems
- Updates
- Some devices that were supported by previous releases of Tivoli Storage
Manager are no longer
supported by the Tivoli Storage
Manager V7.1
server. For the latest list of supported devices, see the following
links:
To search for the latest updates, limitations,
and known problems, which might include additional items, see Updates, limitations, and known problems for Tivoli Storage
Manager V7.1 device
support.