Re: VTL Tape Size

2009-07-08 Thread Huebner,Andy,FORT WORTH,IT
mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Tchuise, Bertaut Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 8:00 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] VTL Tape Size Andy, Regarding the point made below about writing 100GB exchange files on smaller VTL volumes, you are probably aware of this but you could m

Re: VTL Tape Size

2009-07-08 Thread Tchuise, Bertaut
Administrator Legg Mason Technology Services *410-580-7032 btchu...@leggmason.com -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Huebner,Andy,FORT WORTH,IT Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 3:21 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] VTL Tape Size

Re: VTL Tape Size

2009-07-07 Thread John D. Schneider
o it depends on the scale of problem you are trying to solve. Best Regards, John D. Schneider The Computer Coaching Community, LLC Office: (314) 635-5424 Toll Free: (866) 796-9226 Cell: (314) 750-8721 Original Message Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] VTL Tape Size From: Nicholas Rodol

Re: VTL Tape Size

2009-07-07 Thread John Monahan
WORTH,IT > Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 9:36 AM > To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: VTL Tape Size > > We are about to bring up new TSM servers and one of questions that has > come up is how big to make the VTL tapes? We currently use 100GG and > have tried 10GB with our test

Re: VTL Tape Size

2009-07-07 Thread Huebner,Andy,FORT WORTH,IT
The top problems we are trying to solve are tape contention and utilization. Contention is a little troublesome from time to time. Utilization is why we did some testing to the extreme of 10GB volumes. There are some very interesting points: >> I think your volume size should be something fitti

Re: VTL Tape Size

2009-07-07 Thread Tchuise, Bertaut
tor Legg Mason Technology Services *410-580-7032 btchu...@leggmason.com -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Huebner,Andy,FORT WORTH,IT Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 10:36 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] VTL Tape Size We are

Re: VTL Tape Size

2009-07-07 Thread Nicholas Rodolfich
lient is fat and happy now, backing up ~1.5TB nightly with plenty of time left and the TSM server performance is stellar. Regards, Nicholas "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" wrote on 07/07/2009 11:18:26 AM: > [image removed] > > Re: [ADSM-L] VTL Tape Size > > John D. Schneide

Re: VTL Tape Size

2009-07-07 Thread Shawn Drew
Shawn Shawn Drew Internet karel@atosorigin.com Sent by: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU 07/07/2009 11:06 AM Please respond to ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To ADSM-L cc Subject Re: [ADSM-L] VTL Tape Size Hi, I think your volume size should be something fittin

Re: VTL Tape Size

2009-07-07 Thread John D. Schneider
Andy, My experience may not map to the problem you are trying to solve, but I chose a relatively small VTL tape size (50GB) and have not regretted it. The trade-off is "total number of virtual tapes" vs "total number of anticipated simultaneous tape mounts". Say you hav

Re: VTL Tape Size

2009-07-07 Thread Bos, Karel
o:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Huebner,Andy,FORT WORTH,IT Sent: dinsdag 7 juli 2009 16:36 To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: VTL Tape Size We are about to bring up new TSM servers and one of questions that has come up is how big to make the VTL tapes? We currently use 100GG and have tried 10GB wit

VTL Tape Size

2009-07-07 Thread Huebner,Andy,FORT WORTH,IT
We are about to bring up new TSM servers and one of questions that has come up is how big to make the VTL tapes? We currently use 100GG and have tried 10GB with our test server. The question is what size it popular and why? Andy Huebner This e-mail (including any attachments) is confidential