IBM® Tivoli® Storage Manager Device
Support for Fix Pack 6.3.1.000 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
6.3.1.000.
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 (DISK, CD, and so on).
- Maximum number of devices 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 platform, see Technote 1364225 at http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21364225.
- 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 at http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21396706.
- Windows 2008 Server Core
support
- Windows 2008 Server Core
is supported. For information about configuring devices on Windows 2008 Server Core, see
Technote 1320150 at http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21320150.
- 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 at http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27011793.
- 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 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 at http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21383169.
- 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 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 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 most current level of the Emulex HBA driver on
Oracle Solaris SPARC. For more information, see Technote 1217457 at http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21217457.
- Running the Tivoli Storage
Manager passthru driver with a non-root user ID on Linux platforms
- For information about how a non-root user can use devices with
the Tivoli Storage Manager passthru
driver on Linux, see Technote
1321130 at http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21321130. Option -g or -a of the device autoconf utility
is used to ensure that non-root users can use devices 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.
For more information about
Tivoli Storage Manager, see the
Tivoli Storage Manager Information
Center at
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v6r3.
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 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 the procedure to configure the autochanger and each drive
in the library separately, see the information about configuring device
drives in the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Administrator's
Guide.
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