330 IBM Tivoli Storage Manager in a Clustered Environment
7.1 Overview
The functionality of Tivoli Storage Manager for Storage Area Network (Storage
Agent) has been described described under 2.1.2, “IBM Tivoli Storage Manager
for Storage Area Networks V5.3” on page 14.
Through the current chapter, we focus in the use of this feature as applied to our
Windows clustered environments.
7.2 Planning and design
There are different types of hardware configurations that take advantage of using
the Storage Agent for LAN-free backup in a SAN.
An installation must carefully plan and design their own configuration, and they
should also check the compatibility and support requirements for the Tivoli
Storage Manager for Storage Area Network in order for it to ...