Hi,
Do you speak french ?
May I make some suggestion...
I work with a huge library, TS3500, with 7 virtual libraries (ALMS) defined...
1. Do you really need to partition the library ?
A library manager is a good and scalable solution...
2. Traditionnal partitioning (ie physical partitioning) and ALMS (virtual
libraries) are exclusive solution.
You can't mixt the two solutions.
I mean, if you activate ALMS, you should loose all physical partitioning
Activating ALMS mean a complete change of strategy regarding how you use your
3584
To activate ALMS, which is a very nice "virtual libraries" solution... :-)
A) note all tape label for each actual partition
B) activate ALMS
B.1) create two virtual library, corresponding to the old partitions
allocate drives to each library
connect and define all tape on server side
B.2) allocate each tape to each corresponding virtual library
B.3) launch audit libr on each tsm server
C) create the third virtual library
D) Enjoy it
You will find all informations on IBM Infocenter :
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ts3500tl/v1r0/index.jsp
Pierre
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> la part de PAC Brion Arnaud
> Envoyé : jeudi 12 juin 2008 15:54
> À : ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
> Objet : [ADSM-L] ALMS activation on productive shared TS3500 library
>
> Hi All,
>
> A probably trivial question, but I'm unable to find necessary
> information in the books ...
>
> Our TSM setup is actually made of a TS3500 library equipped
> with 15 LT03 drives and an expansion frame, the whole being
> shared between 2 TSM servers, thru the mean of "standard"
> library sharing (contiguous drive and slots for each logical library).
>
> So far, our logical libraries are looking like:
>
> - 1st partition : 7 tape drives (frame 1 row 1-7) and slots
> 1025 -1375
> - 2nd partition : 8 tape drives (frame 1 rows 8-12, frame 2
> rows 1-3) and slots 1376-1707
>
> Note that the 3 last drives (frame 2 rows 1-3) where recently
> added, and are so far not used by any TSM server ...
>
> What we intend to do is to activate ALMS to create a 3rd
> partition which should be made of 3 drives (the 3 ones which
> are still not attributed) + approx. 50 tape slots, and to use
> that one for a new TSM server.
>
> My questions are :
>
> - what are the possible issues (if any) that I could face
> after having activated ALMS and created the 3rd partition ?
> - Is there any chance that our productive TSM servers could
> loose track of the already in use volumes, or of their drives ?
> - Will my actual partitioning still exist after ALMS activation ...
>
> Well, in some words : what shall I care about, before
> activating ALMS on an already partitioned and productive library ?
>
> Hopefully someone already went thru this and will give me some hints !
>
> Thanks in advance ...
>
> Cheers.
>
> Arnaud
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