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Leveraging SAN
Chapter 16.
environments
We now enter into the advanced topics for this guide.
In this chapter we describe how to exploit your SAN environment to perform
LAN-free client operations. We cover, in detail, requirements and procedures to
set up LAN-free backup to tape using advanced IBM Tivoli Storage Manager
features, such as library sharing, server to server communication, SAN device
discovery, and more.
We show you how to install and configure the Storage Agent component, which
is a prerequisite for LAN-free operations, and how to deploy the Storage Agent
into your IBM Tivoli Storage Manager architecture.
Finally, we show you how to determine whether client operations such as
backups and restores were made via LAN-free and which important
considerations you should make before deploying the LAN-free feature to your
data protection procedures.
More information about LAN-free environments, especially about various library
sharing scenarios and LAN-Free backups to disk, is in Get More Out of Your
SAN with IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, SG24-6687.
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