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by Stefan Neff, Wei Zheng Ong, Illarion Borisevich, Khanh Ngo, Larry Coyne
IBM Spectrum Archive Enterprise Edition V1.2.2: Installation and Configuration Guide
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Summary of changes
January 2017, Third Edition Version 1.2.2
August 2016, Second Edition Version 1.2.1
June 2016, First Edition, Version 1.2
January 2015, Third Edition Version 1.1.1.2
November 2014, Second Edition Version 1.1.1.1
Chapter 1. IBM Spectrum Archive Enterprise Edition
1.1 Introduction
1.1.1 Operational storage
1.1.2 Active archive
1.2 IBM Spectrum Archive EE functions
1.3 IBM Spectrum Archive EE components
1.4 IBM Spectrum Archive EE cluster configuration introduction
1.5 The Linear Tape File System tape format
1.5.1 LTFS tape format compatibility
1.6 Data access by using the LTFS index
Chapter 2. IBM Spectrum Archive overview
2.1 Introduction to IBM Spectrum Archive and LTFS
2.1.1 Tape partitions
2.1.2 Index
2.1.3 Tape media capacity with IBM Spectrum Archive
2.1.4 Filesystem in Userspace
2.1.5 XML schema
2.2 Comparison of the IBM Spectrum Archive products
2.2.1 IBM Spectrum Archive Single Drive Edition
2.2.2 IBM Spectrum Archive Library Edition
2.2.3 IBM Spectrum Archive EE
2.3 IBM Spectrum Scale
2.3.1 Overview
2.3.2 Storage pools
2.3.3 Policies and policy rules
2.3.4 Migration or premigration
2.4 Types of archiving
Chapter 3. Planning
3.1 System requirements
3.2 Required software
3.3 Hardware and software setup
3.4 Sizing and settings
3.4.1 IBM Spectrum Scale block size
3.4.2 IBM Spectrum Archive EE metadata file system
3.4.3 Redundant copies
3.4.4 Performance
Chapter 4. Installation
4.1 Installing IBM Spectrum Archive EE on a Linux system
4.2 Installation prerequisites for IBM Spectrum Archive EE
4.2.1 Installing the host bus adapter and device driver
4.2.2 IBM Spectrum Archive EE distribution of packages for Linux
4.2.3 Installing the IBM tape device driver
4.3 Installing IBM Spectrum Archive EE
4.3.1 Extracting binary rpm files from an installation package
4.3.2 Installing, upgrading, or uninstalling IBM Spectrum Archive EE
4.4 Upgrading the IBM tape library or tape drive firmware
4.4.1 Downloading operator guides for IBM tape libraries and drives
4.4.2 Upgrading the TS3500 tape library firmware
4.4.3 Upgrading IBM tape drive firmware
4.5 Creating a logical library and defining tape drives
4.5.1 Creating a logical library for IBM Spectrum Archive EE
4.5.2 Assigning tape drives to the IBM Spectrum Archive EE logical library
4.5.3 Assigning the control path tape devices
4.5.4 Assigning tape media for IBM Spectrum Archive EE within the logical library
4.6 Quick installation guide for IBM Spectrum Archive EE
Chapter 5. Upgrading from version 1.1.x
5.1 Overview of the IBM Spectrum Archive EE upgrade from version 1.1.x
5.2 The ltfsee_config_save command
5.3 ltfsee_config_upgrade command
5.4 Upgrading from IBM Spectrum Archive Enterprise Edition version 1.1.x
5.4.1 Prerequisite tasks for the upgrade
5.4.2 Upgrading your operating system
5.4.3 Upgrading IBM Spectrum Archive Enterprise Edition
5.4.4 Post-upgrade tasks
5.5 Upgrade processing output examples
5.5.1 Example output from ltfsee_config_save
5.5.2 Example of creating and moving the upgrade_offline.lst in the home directory to <metadata_filesystem_name>/.ltfsee/upgrade
5.5.3 Example output from ltfsee_config_upgrade
Chapter 6. Configuration
6.1 Configuration prerequisites
6.1.1 Configuration worksheet tables
6.1.2 Obtaining configuration information
6.1.3 Configuring key-based login with OpenSSH
6.1.4 Preparing the Spectrum Scale file system for Spectrum Archive EE
6.1.5 Enabling control paths in the logical library
6.2 Configuring IBM Spectrum Archive EE
6.2.1 The ltfsee_config utility
6.2.2 Configuring a single node cluster
6.2.3 Configuring a multiple-node cluster
6.2.4 Configuring a multiple-node cluster with two tape libraries
6.3 First-time start of IBM Spectrum Archive EE
Chapter 7. Operations
7.1 Overview
7.1.1 IBM Spectrum Archive EE command summaries
7.1.2 Using the command-line interface
7.2 Status information
7.2.1 IBM Spectrum Scale
7.2.2 LTFS Library Edition Plus component
7.2.3 Hierarchical Space Management
7.2.4 IBM Spectrum Archive EE
7.3 Upgrading components
7.3.1 IBM Spectrum Scale
7.3.2 LTFS LE+ component
7.3.3 Hierarchical Space Management
7.3.4 IBM Spectrum Archive EE
7.4 Starting and stopping IBM Spectrum Archive EE
7.4.1 Starting IBM Spectrum Archive EE
7.4.2 Stopping IBM Spectrum Archive EE
7.5 Tape library management
7.5.1 Adding tape cartridges
7.5.2 Moving tape cartridges
7.5.3 Formatting tape cartridges
7.5.4 Removing tape drives
7.5.5 Adding tape drives
7.6 Tape storage pool management
7.6.1 Creating tape cartridge pools
7.6.2 Deleting tape cartridge pools
7.7 Migration
7.7.1 Managing file migration pools
7.7.2 Threshold-based migration
7.7.3 Manual migration
7.7.4 Replicas and redundant copies
7.7.5 Migration hints and tips
7.8 Premigration
7.8.1 Premigration with the ltfsee premigrate command
7.8.2 Premigration running the mmapplypolicy command
7.9 Preserving file system objects on tape
7.9.1 Saving file system objects with the ltfsee save command
7.9.2 Saving file system objects with policies
7.10 Restoring non-empty regular files and file system objects from tape
7.11 Recall
7.11.1 Transparent recall
7.11.2 Selective recall
7.11.3 Recalling files with the ltfsee recall command
7.11.4 The ltfsee recall_deadline command
7.11.5 Read Starts Recalls: Early trigger for recalling a migrated file
7.12 Repairing files to their resident state
7.13 Handling of write-failure tapes
7.14 Handling of read-failure tapes
7.15 Reconciliation
7.16 Reclamation
7.17 Checking and repairing
7.18 Importing and exporting
7.18.1 Importing
7.18.2 Exporting
7.18.3 Import/Export enhancements
7.19 Drive Role settings for job assignment control
7.20 Tape drive intermix support
7.21 Write Once Read Many support for IBM TS1140/TS1150 tape drives
7.22 Obtaining the location of files and data
7.23 Obtaining inventory, job, and scan status
7.24 Cleaning up a scan or session
7.25 Monitoring the system with SNMP
7.25.1 Configuring Net-SNMP
7.25.2 Starting and stopping the snmpd daemon
7.25.3 Example of an SNMP trap
Chapter 8. Hints, tips, and preferred practices
8.1 Preventing migration of the .SPACEMAN and metadata directories
8.2 Maximizing migration performance with redundant copies
8.3 Changing the SSH daemon settings
8.4 Setting mmapplypolicy options for increased performance
8.5 Setting the inode size for the GPFS file system for increased performance
8.6 Determining the file states for all files within the GPFS file system
8.7 Memory considerations on the GPFS file system for increased performance
8.8 Increasing the default maximum number of inodes in IBM Spectrum Scale
8.9 Configuring IBM Spectrum Scale settings for performance improvement
8.10 Real world use cases for mmapplypolicy
8.10.1 Creating a traditional archive system policy
8.10.2 Creating active archive system policies
8.11 Capturing a core file on RHEL with abrtd
8.12 Antivirus considerations
8.13 Automatic email notification with rsyslog
8.14 Overlapping IBM Spectrum Scale policy rules
8.15 Storage pool assignment
8.16 Tape cartridge removal
8.16.1 Reclaiming tape cartridges before you remove or export them
8.16.2 Exporting tape cartridges before physically removing them from the library
8.17 Reusing LTFS formatted tape cartridges
8.17.1 Reformatting LTFS tape cartridges through ltfsee commands
8.18 Reusing non-LTFS tape cartridges
8.19 Moving tape cartridges between pools
8.19.1 Avoiding changing assignments for tape cartridges that contain files
8.19.2 Reclaiming a tape cartridge and changing its assignment
8.20 Offline tape cartridges
8.20.1 Do not modify the files of offline tape cartridges
8.20.2 Solving problems
8.21 Scheduling reconciliation and reclamation
8.22 License Expiration Handling
8.23 Reassigning physical tape cartridges to another logical tape library
8.24 Disaster recovery
8.24.1 Tiers of disaster recovery
8.24.2 Preparing IBM Spectrum Archive EE for a tier 1 disaster recovery strategy (offsite vaulting)
8.24.3 IBM Spectrum Archive EE tier 1 DR procedure
8.25 IBM Spectrum Archive EE problem determination
8.26 Collecting IBM Spectrum Archive EE logs for support
8.27 Backing up file systems that are not managed by IBM Spectrum Archive EE
8.27.1 Considerations
8.27.2 Backing up a GPFS or IBM Spectrum Scale environment
8.27.3 Backing up non IBM Spectrum Scale file systems
8.27.4 IBM TS4500 Automated Media Verification with IBM Spectrum Archive EE
Chapter 9. Use cases
9.1 Use cases overview
9.1.1 Use case for archiving
9.1.2 Use case for backup
9.1.3 Use case for tiered and scalable storage
9.1.4 Use case data exchange
9.2 University of Basel and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB)
9.2.1 Business needs
Chapter 10. Troubleshooting
10.1 Overview
10.1.1 Quick health check
10.2 Hardware
10.2.1 Tape library
10.2.2 Tape drives
10.2.3 Tape cartridge
10.3 Recovering data from a write failure tape
10.4 Recovering data from a read failure tape
10.5 Handling export errors
10.6 Software
10.6.1 Linux
10.6.2 SNMP
10.6.3 IBM Spectrum Scale
10.6.4 IBM Spectrum Archive LE+ component
10.6.5 Hierarchical storage management
10.6.6 IBM Spectrum Archive EE logs
10.7 Recovering from system failures
10.7.1 Power failure
10.7.2 Mechanical failure
10.7.3 Inventory failure
10.7.4 Abnormal termination
Chapter 11. Reference
11.1 Command-line reference
11.1.1 IBM Spectrum Archive EE commands
11.1.2 IBM Spectrum Scale commands
11.1.3 Tivoli Storage Manager for Space Management commands
11.2 Formats for IBM Spectrum Scale to IBM Spectrum Archive EE migration
11.3 System calls and IBM tools
11.3.1 Downloading the IBM Tape Diagnostic Tool
11.3.2 Using the IBM LTFS Format Verifier
11.4 IBM Spectrum Archive EE interoperability with IBM Spectrum Archive products
Appendix A. Additional material
Locating the web material
Using the web material
Related publications
IBM Redbooks
Other publications
Online resources
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