LOL,
******
* Why would anyone want to replace 3592s with 9940Bs? <shudder> That's
rather like replacing a decent lean-cut beef
* chop with top-of-the-line dogfood.
*****
I thought the same thing, but you put it in a much more
descriptive way.
But knowing politics, the best hardware does not always win the
contract. Too bad, I'd really whine and complain if someone wanted to
take away my new 3592s. They are trouble free, fast and have monstrous
capacity.
Ben
-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Stapleton, Mark
Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 10:02 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: STK 9940B Tape Drive Exp with TSM?
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Hart, Charles
>Our management is asking us to look at converting our IBM 3592J to
>9940B. (no comment)... Most of our remote sites use 9940B drives with
>Netbackup, and in the past year we have seen many 9940b drives replaced
>(10 out of 40) in the past year, many tapes getting stuck etc... I
>have heard from other people who use 9940b's and have good luck with
>them so I'm not sure if our 9940B issues are hdw or netbackup related.
>
>With that said I have a couple questions for those of you using
>9940B's....
>
>1) 9940B Drives using ACLS / Gersham Reliable?
>
>2) Can we share a STK Silo with TSM and NBU. (Some of the thinking is
>to do DR for some remote sites that have 9940B's)
My experience with 9940B drives (in a PowderHorn) has been that ACSLS
and Gresham are pretty reliable packages, but the 9940B drives
themselves are pretty high-maintenance items. The drives need a fair
amount of care and feeding (microcode updates, troubleshooting and log
analysis, etc.) that have to be done by a StorageTek engineer.
You can share an STK silo with multiple applications as long as you buy
Gresham's EduTape. The good news: with TSM version 5.3 you don't need
Gresham; native ACSLS sharing comes with 5.3. The bad news: you'll have
to buy Gresham anyway if you use NBU. WARNING: Gresham is *very*
expensive.
Why would anyone want to replace 3592s with 9940Bs? <shudder> That's
rather like replacing a decent lean-cut beef chop with top-of-the-line
dogfood.
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Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Berbee Information Networks
Office 262.521.5627
