Re: Drive preference in a mixed-media library sharing environment

2015-01-16 Thread Skylar Thompson
; >> Wanda Prather > >> TSM Consultant > >> ICF International Cybersecurity Division > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> -Original Message- > >> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behal

Re: Drive preference in a mixed-media library sharing environment

2015-01-12 Thread Fr. William Higginbotham OSB
ltant > > >> ICF International Cybersecurity Division > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> -Original Message- > > >> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On > Behalf

Re: Drive preference in a mixed-media library sharing environment

2015-01-12 Thread Skylar Thompson
w > >> devclasses and storage pools to use going forward. > >> > >> > >> Wanda Prather > >> TSM Consultant > >> ICF International Cybersecurity Division > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >

Re: Drive preference in a mixed-media library sharing environment

2015-01-06 Thread Grant Street
-Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Skylar Thompson Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2014 10:15 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Drive preference in a mixed-media library sharing environment Interesting. I hadn't cons

Re: Drive preference in a mixed-media library sharing environment

2015-01-06 Thread Skylar Thompson
da Prather > TSM Consultant > ICF International Cybersecurity Division > > > > > > -Original Message- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of > Skylar Thompson > Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2014 10:15 AM > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU &

Re: Drive preference in a mixed-media library sharing environment

2014-12-12 Thread Prather, Wanda
mber 11, 2014 10:15 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Drive preference in a mixed-media library sharing environment Interesting. I hadn't considered using different libraries to solve this. It was a little unclear from the thread - does this require partitioning on the library

Re: Drive preference in a mixed-media library sharing environment

2014-12-11 Thread Skylar Thompson
Interesting. I hadn't considered using different libraries to solve this. It was a little unclear from the thread - does this require partitioning on the library side? I wasn't aware that two different libraries (presumably with two different paths) could share a single device special node. On Wed

Re: Drive preference in a mixed-media library sharing environment

2014-12-10 Thread Roger Deschner
It won't work. I tried and failed in a StorageTek SL500 library with LTO4 and LTO5. Just like you are reporting, the LTO4 tapes would get mounted in the LTO5 drives first, and then there was no free drive in which to mount a LTO5 tape. I tried all kinds of tricks to make it work, but it did not wor

Re: Drive preference in a mixed-media library sharing environment

2014-12-10 Thread Skylar Thompson
On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 03:28:59PM +1100, Grant Street wrote: > On 10/12/14 02:40, Skylar Thompson wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > We have two TSM 6.3.4.300 servers connected to a STK SL3000 with 8x LTO5 > > drives, and 8x LTO6 drives. One of the TSM servers is the library manager, > > and the other i

Re: Drive preference in a mixed-media library sharing environment

2014-12-09 Thread Grant Street
On 10/12/14 02:40, Skylar Thompson wrote: Hi folks, We have two TSM 6.3.4.300 servers connected to a STK SL3000 with 8x LTO5 drives, and 8x LTO6 drives. One of the TSM servers is the library manager, and the other is a client. I'm seeing odd behavior when the client requests mounts from the serv

Drive preference in a mixed-media library sharing environment

2014-12-09 Thread Skylar Thompson
Hi folks, We have two TSM 6.3.4.300 servers connected to a STK SL3000 with 8x LTO5 drives, and 8x LTO6 drives. One of the TSM servers is the library manager, and the other is a client. I'm seeing odd behavior when the client requests mounts from the server. My understanding is that a mount request