Tivoli Storage Manager for Sun Solaris Administrator's Guide
A device class represents a device type that can be used by TSM. TSM
uses the device class to determine which device and storage volume type to use
to:
- Store backup, archive, or space-managed data (primary storage pools)
- Store copies of primary storage pool data (copy storage pools)
- Store database backups
- Export or import TSM data
One device class can be associated with multiple storage pools.
Each storage pool is associated with only one device class.
Each device class is characterized by its device type, which
indicates the type of storage volumes that are used to store data. For
random access storage, TSM supports only the DISK device class. The
DISK device class is predefined by TSM.
However, you can define many storage pools associated with the DISK device
class.
For sequential access storage, TSM supports the following device
types:
Device
| Description
|
3570
| IBM 3570 cartridge tape devices
|
3590
| IBM 3590 tape drives
|
4MM
| 4mm tape drives
|
8MM
| 8mm tape drives
|
CARTRIDGE
| Cartridge tape drives, such as IBM 3480, 3490, and 3490E drives
|
DLT
| Digital linear tape drives
|
ECARTRIDGE
| Cartridge tape drives such as StorageTek SD-3 and 9490
drives
|
FILE
| Storage volumes that are actually files in the file system of the server
machine
|
GENERICTAPE
| Tape drives supported by the native Solaris device drivers
|
OPTICAL
| Optical drives that use 5.25-inch rewritable optical cartridges
|
QIC
| Quarter-inch cartridge tape drives
|
SERVER
| Storage volumes that are actually files archived in the server storage of
another TSM server (a target server)
|
WORM
| Optical drives that use 5.25-inch write-once read-many optical
cartridges
|
REMOVABLEFILE
| Removable media devices (CDROM support)
|
See the following sections:
In this chapter, most examples illustrate how to perform tasks by using the
TSM command line interface. For information about the TSM commands, see
Administrator's Reference, or issue the HELP command from the command line of a TSM administrative
client.
All of the TSM commands can be performed from the administrative Web
interface. For more information about using the administrative
interface, see Quick Start.
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