ECS as target for TSM Backup

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laurent.majcher Did you get a chance to configure ECS as backup target to TSM?

I have created Namespace, bucket and FILE on ECS. In the File, I have the share path. I am assuming i need to specify this share path in the TSM in FILE device class. Is this correct?

Do i specify CAS in ECS and Center device class in TSM?

My final goal is to archive data on TSM to ECS.

He's a cut n paste of the steps I used to create a storage pool to write to ECS with S3

In the command builder enter the following commands

define devclass backupclass devtype=FILE directory=e:/backup

set dbrecovery backupclass

set serverpassword passw0rd

Define the storage pool for the ECS system

define stgpool ECS stgtype=cloud cloudtype=s3 cloudurl=http://10.246.27.211:9020 id=ibmsp1 password=qwvUeh0ynUUdKIXZRW+hFGslxfnh4XHggduFB8PD encrypt=no pooltype=primary access=readwrite cloudlocation=onpremise

Create domains, policyset and management class for the ECS storage pool

define domain ecs-domain description="ecs domain"

define policyset ecs-domain ecs-ps description="ecs ps"

define mgmtclass ecs-domain ecs-ps ecs-mgmtclass description="ecs mgmt class"

assign defmgmtclass ecs-domain ecs-ps ecs-mgmtclass

define stgpooldirectory ecs f:\ecs\1

define stgpooldirectory ecs f:\ecs\2

define stgpooldirectory ecs f:\ecs\3

define stgpooldirectory ecs f:\ecs\4

define copygroup ecs-domain ecs-ps ecs-mgmtclass standard type=backup destination=ecs

define copygroup ecs-domain ecs-ps ecs-mgmtclass standard type=archive destination=ecs

define policyset ecs-domain ecs-ps description="ecs ps"

activate policyset ecs-domain ecs-ps

You will be asked to confirm the operation

Hopefully that will get you started.  Feel free to drop me an email at paul.mckeown@dell.com

I should add that I have configured it as I set it up in my lab for some validation tests, you obviously would have a different solution design for a production system

Hi

Centera/ECS CAS is supported from TSM 7.1 upwards.

If you want to connect to ECS using the S3 API you can use Spectrum Protect 8.1.x to connect to ECS.  FYI: SP 8.1 was the first revision IBM opened up certification of non-IBM S3 storage systems.  You can get earlier TSM versions that have S3 support to work with ECS but officially you need SP 8.1.x

Hi Paul,

I've got questions from our customer Volkswagen regarding performance of using TSM 8.1 with ECS!

We have the performance-whitepaper, where we can see what is possible with file-enabled buckets in ECS.

Do you know which Object-size we can expect from TSM?

As far as I know TSM is working multi-threaded. So this will be no problem, correct?

Kind regards

Matthias