On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 11:16:23AM -0500, Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU wrote: > We are investigating the issue of moving TSM off AIX to a Linux system, > purely due to the cost of AIX hardware (lets face it....when it costs me > $5000 for a drawer of used SSA drives just to get me 130GB of raided disk > when I can get complete multi-processor x86 boxes with 300GB of raided > disk for the same cost, you have to investigate !) > > > The only issue is the fiber-channel/SAN connectivity to the shared 3494 > ATL (primarily used by our z/OS systems) using 3590 E1A drives.
A couple of years ago I connected a Linux box to a SAN to access disk on an ESS. This worked fine (although the driver for the FC-card only supported 16 LUNS but that was enough for our test). So I suppose it shouldn't bne to hard to get a robot connected provided you have drivers to support it. -Marcel -- ======-------- Marcel J.E. Mol MESA Consulting B.V. =======--------- ph. +31-(0)6-54724868 P.O. Box 112 =======--------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2630 AC Nootdorp __==== www.mesa.nl ---____U_n_i_x______I_n_t_e_r_n_e_t____ The Netherlands ____ They couldn't think of a number, Linux user 1148 -- counter.li.org so they gave me a name! -- Rupert Hine -- www.ruperthine.com