Tivoli Storage Manager Sample Architecture - IBM

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Tivoli Storage Manager Deduplication Sample Architecture
Document History...................................................................................................................2
Document Location........................................................................................................................................2
Revision History.............................................................................................................................................2
About this document......................................................................................................................................2
Disclaimer......................................................................................................................................................2
Contents..................................................................................................................................3
1. Overview of the architecture...............................................................................................5
1.1 Deduplication technology.........................................................................................................................5
1.2 Executive summary..................................................................................................................................5
1.3 Architecture details...................................................................................................................................6
1.3.1 Deduplicated primary pool.................................................................................................................7
1.3.2 Random disk storage pool.................................................................................................................7
1.3.3 Tape copy storage pool.....................................................................................................................7
2. Observed performance.......................................................................................................8
2.1 Data ingestion..........................................................................................................................................8
2.2 Protected data..........................................................................................................................................9
2.3 Data movement........................................................................................................................................9
2.4 Database disk IOPS measurements......................................................................................................10
3. Hardware Details..............................................................................................................11
3.1 TSM server.............................................................................................................................................11
3.2 Disk storage...........................................................................................................................................11
3.2.1 Disk for TSM database....................................................................................................................11
3.2.2 Disk for TSM storage pools.............................................................................................................12
3.3 Tape storage..........................................................................................................................................12
3.4 Software stack........................................................................................................................................12
3.5 Network overview...................................................................................................................................13
4. Configuration.....................................................................................................................14
4.1 Operating system tuning changes..........................................................................................................14
4.2 DB2 configuration changes....................................................................................................................14
4.3 Storage configuration.............................................................................................................................14
4.3.1 Disk subsystem layout.....................................................................................................................14
4.3.2 Volume manager and file system configuration...............................................................................15
4.4 TSM server configuration.......................................................................................................................16
Document: Tivoli Storage Manager Deduplication Sample Architecture Date: 09/28/2012
Version: 1.0
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