We have used two methods in the past and are looking at a third alternative for the future. In the past, I partitioned the 3494 and divided the six SCSI drives we had between between two systems, four and two. At present we have a single 3494, with five frames, two fibre connected drives, and 6 SCSI drives hooked into a San Data Gateway, shared between two systems. It works, but offers more headaches than I need. We are looking to replace this with a Licensed Library Manager, either on a zLinux platform (if it will work) or a small AIX or Linux86 box.
At 08:20 AM 10/28/2003 +0100, you wrote:
Hi all,
We have to expand our TSM-infrastructure. Today we have 2 * H80 (AIX 5.1), 2 * 3494 (each with 8 * 3590 E1A connected via SCSI to H80) I would prefer to get 2 more AIX-Servers (6C4) with SAN-adapters and 2 * library with 3592 (or LTO) adapted to the SAN. But that is the most expensive way. My question : is it possible to expand the existing 3494 Tape-Library with a frame with 2 (4) 3592 drives and work with this part of the library from another TSM-instance on another Unix-Server (independent from the other TSM-Server). I don't want to share the drives between the instances, I want to use the SCSI-3590-drives on one server, the 3592-SAN-drives on the other server. I think I have to bring the Library itself to SAN (??) to have it shared. But is then always one TSM-Server the Library-manager (master), or can I define a library for the SCSI-drives on one server and another library (in fact the same hardware) with the SAN-drives (3592) on another TSM-server ???
Thanks for any help
Chr. Pilgram
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co.KG IT Department Christoph Pilgram Tel. +49 7351 54 4051 Birkendorfer Str.65 Fax. +49 7351 83 4051 88397 Biberach Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Germany
Fred Johanson ITSM Administration NSIT/DCS University of Chicago 773-702-8464
