Thanks for the tip about ALMS. I saw it and figured I would need it..... As for replacing the TS1130 with TS1140 - . The cost is way out there. We just added 3-new TS1130 and upgraded some TS1120's withing the past 6-months. My money guy did the math. The cost to replace 1200 JA tapes and get 4-TS1140 drives, with our educational discount, would run ~$235K on top of the library cost. Plus he made some comment about the data transfer rate of the TS1140 is less than/not as good as the TS1130 drives.
With 7-TSM servers (with more TSM servers in my future to address the need to backup many thousands of faculty/staff/student "desktops") transferring data from disk-to-tape, all day long, I need spindles not necessarily storage capacity. We currently have 17-TS1130 drives and more than half are in use, constantly (I have one Notes server that backs up >9TB every 2-weeks) Thanks for the suggestion..... On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 7:42 AM, Steven Harris <st...@stevenharris.info>wrote: > Zoltan, > > Please make your life easier by spending the small additional amount to > get ALMS. It makes using the library so much simpler. Also for any > advanced features, such as Storage frames you will find it is required. > > I'd suggest you upgrade to TS1140s while you are changing the library. > Using ALMS you can partition the library your 3592E06 (TS1130 format) > tapes are in one partition and the 3592E07 (TS1140) tapes are in > another. This is the recommended way to deal with mixed formats. > > Regards > > Steve > > Steven Harris > TSM Admin > Canberra Australia. > > > Yep, pretty much that simple. >> >> Check the tapes out of one library, check them into another. >> No more complicated than if you are going to a DR site that has a 3584 >> rather than a 3494. >> TSM doesn't care. >> >> There are some differences in the library management: >> >> If you are talking to the 3494 library interface via TCP/IP now, that >> changes. (Some people use the TCP/IP interface, some use a serial cable.) >> TSM talks to the 3584 library via the atape drive over the fibre, it has >> its own device number/path. >> >> Thomas already mentioned that the 3584 can be partitioned into logical >> libraries. >> If you have multiple TSM servers or other apps using the 3494, you keep >> them separated now by 3494 category codes, those go away. >> You have the logical libraries now instead. Carts get assigned to the >> logical libraries based on a volser range filter in the library interface. >> >> W >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of >> Zoltan Forray >> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 2:08 PM >> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU >> Subject: [ADSM-L] Tape library possible replacement - push/pull >> >> We are starting to examine the idea of replacing our aging 3494 (installed >> 1995) due to difficulty in getting parts and having more frequent outages >> due to robot issues. >> >> Since we have 17-TS1130 drives, the natural transition would be to a >> TS3500/3584. >> >> If we go down this route, one issue might be the floorspace/placement, >> which might require a weekend eject-push-pull-reload. >> >> Never having dealt with any tape library other than the 3494, I am trying >> to collect as much info as I can on doing a swap-out. >> >> Is it as simple as defining the new library, moving the drives/paths to >> it, changing the devclass to point to the new library, checkin everything >> (scratch/private)?? Am I missing anything? >> >> -- >> *Zoltan Forray* >> TSM Software & Hardware Administrator >> Virginia Commonwealth University >> UCC/Office of Technology Services >> zfor...@vcu.edu - 804-828-4807 >> Don't be a phishing victim - VCU and other reputable organizations will >> never use email to request that you reply with your password, social >> security number or confidential personal information. For more details >> visit >> http://infosecurity.vcu.edu/**phishing.html<http://infosecurity.vcu.edu/phishing.html> >> >> -- *Zoltan Forray* TSM Software & Hardware Administrator Virginia Commonwealth University UCC/Office of Technology Services zfor...@vcu.edu - 804-828-4807 Don't be a phishing victim - VCU and other reputable organizations will never use email to request that you reply with your password, social security number or confidential personal information. For more details visit http://infosecurity.vcu.edu/phishing.html
