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Client

Storage Agent installed

Tape Library

File Library

Library Control

Client Metadata

Library
Control

Client
Data

SAN

LAN

Tivoli Storage Manager Server

Figure

1.

SAN

Data

Movement.

Solid

lines

indicate

data

movement.

Broken

lines

indicate

movement

of

control

information

and

metadata.

Client

Client

Tape Library

File Library

Library Control

Client Metadata

Library
Control

Client

Data

Client

Data

SAN

LAN

Tivoli Storage Manager Server

Client

with

Storage Agent

Figure

2.

SAN

Data

Movement

with

the

LANFREECOMMMETHOD

option.

Solid

lines

indicate

data

movement.

Broken

lines

indicate

movement

of

control

information

and

metadata.

The

LANFREECOMMMETHOD

option

allows

the

storage

agent

to

support

several

clients

while

installed

on

only

one

of

the

clients.

2

IBM

Tivoli

Storage

Manager

for

SAN

for

AIX:

Storage

Agent

User’s

Guide