Re: LTO5 Tuning

2014-10-31 Thread Frank Fegert
Hello Steve, what is the actual distance on the path to the tape drives? Can you ask your SAN team how many buffer credits are configured on the switch ports? It seems from your statement 76 km distance that it might be a long distance connection. Make sure you have enought buffer credits on the

Re: LTO5 Tuning

2014-10-31 Thread Ryder, Michael S
Steve, is this a TCPIP or FC connection? Mike On Thursday, October 30, 2014, Steven Harris st...@stevenharris.info wrote: Thanks for your interest Mike. The san guy tells me it's 380 microseconds which equates to 76 km distance. Regards Steve On 30 Oct 2014 23:50, Ryder, Michael S

LTO5 Tuning

2014-10-30 Thread Steven Harris
Hi All I have a TSM 6.3.4 server on newish P7 hardware and AIX V7.1. HBAs are all 8Gb. The sans behind it are 8Gb or 4Gb depending which path they take as we are in the middle of a SAN upgrade and there is still an old switch in the mix. Disk is XIV behind SVC. Tape is TS3500 and LTO5.

Re: LTO5 Tuning

2014-10-30 Thread Ryder, Michael S
Steve: What is the latency on your intersite connection? Best regards, Mike, x7942 RMD IT Client Services On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 8:35 AM, Steven Harris st...@stevenharris.info wrote: Hi All I have a TSM 6.3.4 server on newish P7 hardware and AIX V7.1. HBAs are all 8Gb. The sans behind

Re: LTO5 Tuning

2014-10-30 Thread Steven Harris
Thanks for your interest Mike. The san guy tells me it's 380 microseconds which equates to 76 km distance. Regards Steve On 30 Oct 2014 23:50, Ryder, Michael S michael_s.ry...@roche.com wrote: Steve: What is the latency on your intersite connection? Best regards, Mike, x7942 RMD IT