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򐂰 Tivoli Storage Manager Version 5.3 Backup/Archive Client

򐂰 Tivoli Storage Manager Version 5.3 Storage Agent

The Tivoli System Automation release notes give detailed information about

required operating system versions and hardware. You can find the release

notes online at:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/tividd/td/IBMTivoliSystemAutomationforMultiplatforms

1.2.html

12.3 Lab setup

We have the following hardware components in our lab for the implementation of

the Tivoli System Automation cluster, that will host different Tivoli Storage

Manager software components:

򐂰 IBM 32 Bit Intel® based servers with IBM FAStT FC2-133 FC host bus

adapters (HBAs)

򐂰 IBM DS4500 disk system (Firmware v6.1 with Storage Manager v9.10) with

two EXP700 storage expansion units

򐂰 IBM 3582 tape library with two FC-attached LTO2 tape drives

򐂰 IBM 2005 B32 FC switch

We use the following steps to find our supported cluster configuration:

1. We choose a Linux distribution that meets the requirements for the

components mentioned in 12.2, “Planning and design” on page 598. In our

case, we use Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3 (RHEL AS 3). We could also

use, for example, the SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 (SLES 8). The main

difference would be the way in which we ensure persistent binding of devices.

We discuss these ways to accomplish the different distributions in Persistent

binding of disk and tape devices.

Note: We use the most current supported combination of software

components and drivers that fulfills the requirements for our lab hardware and

our software requirements as they are at the time of writing. You need to

check supported distributions, device driver versions, and other requirements

when you plan such an environment. The online IBM HBA search tool is useful

for this. It is available at:

http://knowledge.storage.ibm.com/servers/storage/support/hbasearch/

interop/hbaSearch.do