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Appendix A. Whitewater Best Practices for IBM Tivoli Storage Manager
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager uses Device Classes and Storage Pools to store backup data from client systems. Tivoli Storage
Manager Device Classes and Storage Pools can be viewed and modified from the
Storage Devices
Panel of the Tivoli Storage
Manager Administration Console.
Figure 36 TSM Device Class Properties
Tivoli Storage Manager uses Whitewater CIFS shares as a
FILE
device class. Each FILE device class can point to one
or more Whitewater CIFS share(s) via the
directory
option. It is recommended that each share path be comprised of a
unique Whitewater hostname and share name value. Do not use Whitewater CIFS shares as a DISK device class.
Mount Limit
should not be set to an initial value higher than 5 per Whitewater based FILE device class.
Maximum Volume Capacity
should not be set to a value greater than 20GB (20480 MB).
Figure 37 TSM Storage Pool Properties
Reclamation Threshold
should be set to a value of no lower than 80. Reclaiming volumes which have lower than 80%
reclaimable space can cause unnecessary disk read and write activity.