On Tuesday, Feb 10, 2004, at 08:12 Australia/Sydney, Prather, Wanda wrote:
But even so, that doesn't get you drive sharing, only robot sharing. Buying drives for the 3494 is $$painful.
Ahh - We are currently sharing fibre attached 3590s between two firewalled TSM servers - the TSM servers have no access to each other. One is 5.1.x.x, the other 4.2.x.x. I remember researching this some time back - and I remember reading in one of the TSM manuals that this is a supported config.
In our case, it mostly works fine, with the shared drives switching between TSM servers via the SCSI reservation mechanism.
I say mostly, since the 4.2 server occasionally gets a "mount point reserved" that requires a TSM restart to clear, and the other hassle is SCSI resets during reboots of the servers (both Solaris, in our case).
Cheers, -- Paul Ripke Unix/OpenVMS/TSM/DBA I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. -- Douglas Adams
