HI DUDE! Happy New Year! Sounds to me like that will work. TSM will certainly let you have multiple devclasses pointing to the same library.
I would just test it - update the devclass, check a cartridge out of your 3583 library, check it in to the 3584 library, see if you can run AUDIT. BUT, I don't see how your offsite tapes are an issue - you're never going to WRITE to them again on those LTO3 drives. So won't the appropriate action be to do MOVE DATAs from the 3583 LTO1 carts to the 3584 LTO3 carts? Or are you planning to keep the LTO1's in the 3584? In that case you have to partition the library, anyway? Wanda -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of William Boyer Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 11:22 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Question on combining libraries TSM Server 5.3.2.1 running on AIX 5.3 3584 library (3584CLASS) 3583 library (3583CLASS) We have 2 libraries (3584 and 3583) each with 4 SCSI LTO-1 drives. We are purchasing 6 LTO-3 fibre drives that will be installed in the 3584 only! The wish is to take the 3583 out of the picture. If after swapping out the drives can I just change the 3583CLASS device class to point to the 3584 library and then I would have 2 device classes referring to the same library. Or would I need to create all new stgpools that reference only the 3584 library? I don't really want to do that as all my offsite tapes (100's of 'em!) use the 3583CLASS. Bill Boyer "Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional" - ??
