78 IBM Tivoli Storage Manager in a Clustered Environment
5.1 Overview
In an MSCS environment, independent servers are configured to work together
in order to enhance the availability of applications using shared disk subsystems.
Tivoli Storage Manager server is an application with support for MSCS
environments. Clients can connect to the Tivoli Storage Manager server using a
virtual server name.
To run properly, Tivoli Storage Manager server needs to be installed and
configured in a special way, as a shared application in the MSCS.
This chapter covers all the tasks we follow in our lab environment to achieve this
goal.
5.2 Planning and design
When planning our Tivoli Storage Manager server cluster environment, we
should:
Choose the cluster config ...