IBM 3590 and 3592 drives have 2 fibre interfaces. I am unsure how to manage the multipathing yet, but we are going to look at configuring our 3590H drives that way next year to eliminate that single point of failure. Our TSM server is running AIX 5.2ML2 which is connected to a 3494 library with 4 3590H drives which are connected to a Brocade 2800.
Julian Armendariz System Engineer - UNIX H.B. Fuller (651) 236-4043 >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/17/03 12:48PM >>> Hi everyone! We are in the process of formulating an AIX environment instead of our current MVS TSM environment. We would have 2 TSM servers (one being the library manager) with 2 directors, 8 lan-free clients and 24 tape drives, which we hope to share between the 2 TSM servers. We would like to have 2 fibre interfaces per drive in order to eliminate a single point of failure. My question is, how does TSM know which path it is using to the drive and how does it know that one of the paths to an individual drive is already in use? Is there software out there to manage this or is it done through the hardware configuration? If anyone has any suggestions I would appreciate it! Thanks! *************************************************************** Joni Moyer Highmark Storage Systems Work:(717)302-6603 **New as of 11/1/03 Fax:(717)302-5974 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***************************************************************
