IBM® Tivoli® Storage Manager Device
Support for Fix Pack 6.2.5.000 is available. A description is
provided, along with links to device resources.
Description
This document
includes information about device drivers for Tivoli Storage Manager Fix Pack
6.2.5.000.
Supported devices
For
information about supported devices and hardware, see the following
links:
New device support
All new
devices are supported on AIX,
HP-UX, Linux, Oracle Solaris,
and Windows platforms 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 the Tivoli Storage Manager device driver
- For information about the maximum number of devices that the Tivoli Storage Manager device driver
can support on each platform, see Technote 1364225.
- Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) device support
- Serial Attached SCSI devices are supported on some operating system
platforms and architectures. For information about platform and architecture
support for SAS devices, see Technote 1396706.
- Windows native device
driver support through the SCSI passthru interface
- Tivoli Storage Manager V6.2
server supports the Windows native
device driver for tape drives and libraries. Consider using the Windows native device driver
instead of the Tivoli Storage Manager device
driver when the Windows native
device driver is available for your device. Optical devices are controlled
only by the Windows disk
drive. The Tivoli Storage Manager device
driver no longer supports optical devices. For the known problems
of optical devices on Windows 2008
x86 systems, see Technote 1448813.
- StorPort storage drive support on Windows 2003
- The StorPort storage drive is supported on Windows 2003. Microsoft Hot Fix 901371 or Windows 2003 Service Pack 2 is required.
For more information about the hot fix, see http://support.microsoft.com.
- Windows 2008 Server Core
support
- Windows 2008 Server Core
is supported. For information about configuring devices on Windows 2008 Server Core, see Technote 1320150.
- Tivoli Storage Manager passthru
driver support for HP-UX 11i version 2 and version 3
- For information about how to configure devices for the Tivoli Storage Manager passthru
driver on HP-UX, see Technote 7011793.
- Support for the esctl SCSI pass-through driver on HP-UX
- The Tivoli Storage Manager passthru
driver supports the esctl SCSI pass-through driver on HP-UX 11i version
3 for the IA64 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
- Option -g or -a of the device
autoconf utility is used to ensure that non-root users can use devices
that are configured with the Tivoli Storage Manager passthru
driver. Option -g adds the read and write permissions
for groups to the Tivoli Storage Manager device
files. Option -a adds the read and write permissions
for all users to the 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 allow
specific devices that are not used by the Tivoli Storage Manager server to
be used by the Volume Management daemon. For more information, see
the man page for vold.conf.
- Running the Tivoli Storage
Manager passthru driver with a non-root user ID on Linux operating systems
- For information about how to allow a non-root user to use devices
with the Tivoli Storage Manager passthru
driver on Linux, see Technote 1321130. Specify option -g or -a in
the device autoconf utility to ensure that non-root users can use
devices that are configured with the Tivoli Storage Manager passthru
driver. Option -g adds the read and write permissions
for groups to the SG device files. Option -a adds
the 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 is important because
the Tivoli Storage Manager
server always references storage slots by element addresses, not storage
slot numbers. For information about the libraries that are associated
with element addresses, see the library configuration page.
- 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 more information about configuring and managing storage devices,
see Configuring and managing server storage.
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