Saravanan, You could setup your tape library so that it is partitioned to use one half for normal backup clients and one half for your storage agent(s), or, you could setup your TSM server as a Library Manager and the storage agent(s) as Library Clients. Since you are using a VTL, the library Manager configuration would work best for you.
Is there a specific reason you need 1/2 of the total drives just for the storage agent? Best Regards, _________________________________________________________ email: ron.delaw...@us.ibm.com Storage Services Offerings From: Saravanan Palanisamy <evergreen.sa...@gmail.com> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 09/15/2014 09:47 AM Subject: [ADSM-L] How to setup dedicated tape drives for storage agent Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> Dear TSM Folks, Has anybody tried this approach to enhance tape drive availability ? Create 64 tape drives in data domain and allocate 32 tape drives only for TSM server backup ( Lan based backup) and remaining 32 tape drives dedicate for storage agent Is this possible to implement this setup ? I really had concern because storage agent definitely need tape drive should be defined and path must be online in TSM server before defining path for storage agent. Will it work if turn off tape drive path in TSM server and only turn on corresponding path for storage agent ? I never tried this approach and has anybody got real time experience on this setup? -- Thanks & Regards, Saravanan Mobile: +65-86966188
