Roger, On the storage pool, is collocation set to Node or Group? I've both mis-clicked and mis-typed that setting more times than I'd want to admit.
Nick Cassimatis ----- Forwarded by Nicholas Cassimatis/Raleigh/IBM on 05/24/2008 02:49 PM ----- "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> wrote on 05/23/2008 10:40:12 PM: > [image removed] > > Why so many filling tapes? > > Roger Deschner > > to: > > ADSM-L > > 05/23/2008 10:46 PM > > Sent by: > > "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> > > Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" > > Our TSM system is eating tapes. > > We have a very large number of "filling" tapes. I have sorted them by > collocation group, and some collocation groups have as many as 6 tapes > in "filling" status. We only have 4 tape drives, and we never migrate > with more than 2 drives per storage pool, so I cannot understand how we > wound up with more than 2 filling tapes per collocation group. > > They are all in readwrite status. There have been no I/O errors that > could explain this. > > I could accept 3, and call it one of those things, but 6? > > Roger Deschner University of Illinois at Chicago [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ======I have not lost my mind -- it is backed up on tape somewhere.=====
