>From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of >PAC Brion Arnaud > > I would like to know if it is possible to share directly attached > > FC Ultrium drives in a 3584 library, between multiple TSM > > servers, without using the 3584 library sharing feature. This > > would mean a dynamic drive allocation, same style as DDS feature > > in Legato's Networker.
Mark Stapleton responded: >Yes. The TSM server that is attached to the library can be a managing >server, while the remote TSM server can be managed. It's not exactly true >library sharing; it's more like the managing server honoring a request from >the managed server to run data to tape. I have tested a similar configuration, but using an ADIC Scalar 10k instead of a 3584. I found that using 3 TSM servers works better than 2. Make the library manager just manage the drives, and do nothing else. The reason I did this was the way mount limits work on the managing server. A drive allocated by the library manager to a library client can (at times anyway), show up as allocated on both the library manager and the library client servers - it's not actually in use on both servers at once, but it counts against the mount limits on both servers. I found it simpler to just set up a separate server as the library manager.
