In that case you must be using collocation (albeit by accident). You may want to look at group collocation as it sounds like your tapes are probably underutilised. Unless that is you have manly fewer, bigger clients.
Steven Langdale Global Information Services EAME SAN/Storage Planning and Implementation ( Phone : +44 (0)1733 584175 ( Mob: +44 (0)7876 216782 ΓΌ Conference: +44 (0)208 609 7400 Code: 331817 + Email: steven.langd...@cat.com EVILUTION <tsm-fo...@backupcentral.com> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> 17/12/2009 20:45 Please respond to ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject [ADSM-L] collocation increases tape mounts while backup Caterpillar: Confidential Green Retain Until: 16/01/2010 We are using an IBM3584 and don't use any kind of collocation. We have found the migration process from diskpool to tape collocates data by node and therefore already does a decent job of grouping node data together. The only time you may see better performance with collocation is with a server that has alot of little files that change often and those nodes should probably be stored on VTL or DISK rather than tape. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by jeff.je...@sentry.com via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. +----------------------------------------------------------------------
