VTL has been looked, but never decided upon. And believe it or not, we have moved storage agents to 10 G networks. The rest of theses storage agents are huge servers that are backing up at least 800 GB (and in some instances 5 to 10 TBs). We have some storage agents that do full backups on the weekends and can easily back up between 20 and 30 TBs.
Thanks Sean Remco Post <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> 07/17/2008 02:50 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Re: [ADSM-L] Feedback on others environments On Jul 17, 2008, at 20:33 , Sean English wrote: > Just wanted to get feedback on what others are doing in terms of > their TSM > environments where library sharing, IBM libraries, and drives are > involved. We have the following setup in one of our major > datacenters: > > 14 (with growth projected up to 19 or 20) TSM instances running on > p570's > with AIX 5.3 and TSM server 5.4.3.0. > 1 library manager managing all these library clients. LM has 78 drives > connected to it (72 in one 3584 libary and 6 in a long term data > retention > 3584 library) > LM also, currently, has 2100+ path statements representing all the > current > library clients and storage agents. We also have the potential of > adding > 200 more storage agents to this library framework (moving from 9940 to > 3592). > We backed up ~50 TBs a day. > Just wanted to see what others were doing in similar environments. > I wouldn't zone all drives to all servers and lanfree clients, 18-26 drives zoned to a server or client gives you a high enough probability that at the appropriate time a drive is available. This will reduce the number of paths to maintain and the complexity of the zone db. I guess your situation is the one situation that you want to look into a vtl or other tape virtualisation solution, so you don't have to buy a tape drive for each server, client and whatever. Question is, do you really need all those lanfree clients, or is it cheaper and to invest in a bit of 10 GE network kit and use the LAN and have TSM do what it's good at: storage hierarchies. > Thanks, > Sean -- Met vriendelijke groeten, Remco Post [EMAIL PROTECTED] +31 6 248 21 622
