To do TSM LAN free with STK ACSLS attached libraries, you will need Gresham EDT. IBM/Tivoli does not support LAN free on ACSLS libraries. To get around this, EDT changes the library definition to EXTERNAL from a TSM viewpoint and allows for the drive sharing (other benefits include media handling enhancements, etc.). Got lots of customer references if you need any.
Please contact me if you have any questions or need more info. Thanks, Bernie Survoy Consulting Systems Engineer Phone: 216 615-9324 Cell: 330 321-3787 [EMAIL PROTECTED] StorageTek -----Original Message----- From: Joel Fuhrman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: September 22, 2003 8:40 PM Subject: Re: Lan-free and ACSLS I believe ACSLS was added in one of the level 5 releases; but I'm not positive. On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Alex Paschal wrote: > Hi, Paul. > > TSM Shared libraries don't support ACSLS, just SCSI and 3494. TSM ACS > support is enough if you're going to dedicate drives to each machine. > Otherwise you'll need EDT to share drives among servers. I believe it's the > same for SAN clients, but I'm not certain of that. > > Alex > > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul van Dongen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 12:17 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Lan-free and ACSLS > > > Hello list, > > Sorry to bother you with this simple question, but I needed a quick > response and thought some of you could have been through the same > situation: > > We want to use TSM to do all of our backups. We have a STK 9310 library > with 9940B drives. The goal is to move this library to a SAN > environment, with a TSM server (on *NIX) controlling the library and a > number of lan-free clients doing their backups to the 9940 drives. > To accomplish this, is TSM's ACS support enough or is another solution > (Gresham's EDT) needed? > > > Thank you all in advance for your attention > > > -- > Paul Gondim van Dongen > Engenheiro de Sistemas > MCSE > IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Certified Consultant > VANguard - Value Added Network guardians > http://www.vanguard-it.com.br > Fone: 55 81 3225-0353 >
