I would guess the most effective approach is to consider the ESCON investment used up and perhaps convert to fiber or SCSI drives connected to an AIX server keeping the 3494 investment. I don't know what that means from the 3590 drive standpoint: do you have to replace them or can they be "changed" to scsi or fiber?
I think from an overall product standpoint reducing the number of platforms supported will help overall product development by allowing more focus on new features rather than cross-platform support. So will we see a Linux server? It would seem a good idea, but there is still money to be made in the OS arena for Tivoli/IBM so that might not be as likely as we would like. Kelly J. Lipp Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc. PO Box 51313 Colorado Springs, CO 80949 [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.storsol.com or www.storserver.com (719)531-5926 Fax: (240)539-7175 -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of cc52 Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 8:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: migration options We are trying to determine what our options are in moving forward from tsm 3.x to 4.x. We have split our load across a TSM AIX 3.7 system and a TSM VM 3.1. We also have Veritas running for an NT Exchange Server. Our Intel folks have been trying to get us to move in the Veritas direction, however that tape system is quite limited (Small DLT library). The AIX and VM are sharing a 3494/3590-E1A library with around 200-300 tapes in it. Our main problem is that we have invested heavily in ESCON connections to the 3494 lib but TSM VM seems to have been deadended for some time. What have other VM TSM users moved to? Again with our hardware the OS/390 TSM seems to be the only other possibility, unless Tivoli comes out with a LINUX/390 Server. The VM version has been so trouble free and so easy to manage its really hard to understand Tivoli's determination to eliminate the platform. Ron Greve SDSU Computing Services
