Instead of virtual volumes, I suggest using library sharing. (Your node-server will have to have enough disk to have its own DB anyway.)
Virtual volumes have to reclaim by sending data over the network, twice. Sharing the library is much faster, simpler & easier to manage than virtual volumes. -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bernd Wiedmann Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 7:13 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: enterprise setup hi everyone, we are planning to do some enterprise configuration. Now, what I have in mind is something like this: 1 TSM-Master-Server, which acts as configuration manager, central event-logger, and administration-server. 5 drives in a storagetek library. maybe hot standby. n instances of TSM-Server, which serve the nodes. but, this TSM-Server won't have any tape or disk-storage. because they send all data to the master-server via virtual volumes. This configuration has the big advantage that the instances don't need drives, or something like that. So here are my questions: Does anyone has such a environment? Does anyone know any pitfalls? Does that concept make sense to you? thanks in advance best regards Bernd Wiedmann Bernd Wiedmann IT-Spezialist Gmünder Ersatzkasse GEK Abteilung Information und Kommunikation Gottlieb-Daimler-Str. 29 D-73529 Schwäbisch Gmünd E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: http://www.gek.de Telefon: +49 (7171) 801-1707 Telefax: +49 (7171) 801-706
