To get the best performance from LTO drives, you need to be able to feed
them lots of data, very quickly. The test with TAR will help show where the
problem is.
I've used TSM 4.1 to backup my TSM DB and I got great thruput - mine where
attached to a SAN - the disk was also SAN attacahed.
When I tried copying lots of small files to the LTO, thruput dropped.
----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Zarnowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 1:26:24 PM
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LTO Performance
> At 01:19 PM 4/20/2001 -0400, Weeks, Debbie wrote:
> >Does anyone out there have any similar experience? We do have support
from
> >both Tivoli and IBM hardware support, any suggestions on who to call
first?
>
> Try running a tar, or some other non-TSM application, to the LTO tape to
> see if the poor performance is only for TSM or for the tape drives. If
> it's only bad for TSM, call TSM support first.
>
> I'm very interested in what you find out about this. In particular, I'd
> like to know if the problem has anything to do with LTO drives dropping
out
> of streaming mode into start/stop mode.
