Tivoli Storage Manager for Sun Solaris Administrator's Guide


Chapter 3. Using Magnetic Disk Devices with Tivoli Storage Manager

With Tivoli Storage Manager, magnetic disk devices are used for:

See the following sections:

Concepts:
"Using Cache"
"Freeing Space on Disk"
"Specifying Scratch FILE Volumes"
"Using FILE Volumes for Database Backups and Export Operations"

Tasks:
"Configuring Random Access Volumes on Disk Devices"
"Configuring FILE Sequential Volumes on Disk Devices"
"Varying Disk Volumes Online or Offline"

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.

Note:Some of the tasks described in this chapter require an understanding of TSM storage objects. For an introduction to these storage objects, see The Tivoli Storage Manager Storage Objects.


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