Brands? IBM 3584 for the big boy! Great library, but somewhat expensive. You can work your dealer on price.
I like the very small IBM libraries for folks that can get by with very little library. Qualstar XLS for a more cost effective big boy. Very reliable and very good value. TLS family been around a very long time and very reliable as well. If footprint isn't an issue, the TSL88132 or 264 is probably the least expensive, highest capacity library available. Spectralogic T950. Great technology, not a cost leader but perhaps a bit less than the IBM. The other T380 family of libraries is more cost effective and flexible enough for most of us. T120 is still a workhorse and if all you'll need is 120 slots and six drives, perhaps the best rack mount library in the class. And as Wanda suggests: it has a 10 slot I/O port. Overland? Not wild about that brand. And the rest are just variants of the same OEM in many cases. Kelly Lipp Chief Technical Officer www.storserver.com 719-266-8777 x7105 STORServer solves your data backup challenges. Once and for all. -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Wanda Prather Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2009 3:12 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] tape library for TSM And in most cases, look for a library with more than 1 I/O slot. On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 2:59 PM, madunix <madu...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 8:02 AM, Mehdi Salehi > <iranian.aix.supp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > What are the essentials of a tape library to fully work with TSM? > > - enough tape drives > > - barcode reader > > - cartridge barcode labels > > - FC connection for LAN-free > > ...? > > > > All above! >
