What is the throughput you are achieving? Mt experience is that it is very difficult to keep an LTO drive streaming. Drive compression has a large effect. With drive compression, you will need a total system which can maintain 15 MB/sec X Compression Ratio. In addition, the TSM overhead per file can slow down even the fastest systems. Look in the archive for some test numbers I posted for a system very much like yours. I posted it about a month ago.
Orville L. Lantto Datatrend Technologies, Inc. 121 Cheshire Lane #700 Minnetonka, MN 55305 Jorge Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 11/08/01 02:19 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: LTO 3584 in a SAN not use several drives in a session Hi all... I have the following, AIX 4.3.3 TSM Server 4.2.0 TSM Storage Agent 4.2.0 TSM Client 4.2.0 TDP for R3 3.2.0.6, LTO 3584 with 4 drives. The SAN fabric is with McData Directors ED-5000 and the LTO is connected to a McData ES-1000, and this conected to the director. I can configure without problems the library and drives in the AIX and TSM, but I can4t use several drives in a backup session. I set Resourceutilization in 8, MaxNumMntPoint in 2 to use two drives, the StorageAgent opens several sessions but only mount a drive. Thanks in Advance Jorge Rodrmguez Caracas - Venezuela Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com