I've gotta ask Geoff,
Why, with a 3494 and LTO library would you move TSM to LTO? My first option would be to move veritas to the 3494.
3494 is industrial strength and plays well in multi host and multi application environments. Use 3592 drives and you'll have capacity to burn. Also, second-hand frames to provide additional storage are quite economical. Second-hand is viable here - what can go wrong with a dumb storage rack? and you'll have no trouble getting IBM maintenance coverage for it if that is important to you.
Regards
Steve.
Steve Harris "Resting" in Brisbane, Australia
----- Original Message ----- From: "Gill, Geoffrey L." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2005 11:29 AM Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM/Veritas on the same library
Since there was only one response I think I need to give a bit of info to help with why I'm asking the question.
We have TSM and Veritas here. Not something I wanted but its here. Currently each reside on their own libraries mainly because one is LTO2(Veritas) and the other a 3494(TSM). I'd like to start moving TSM LTO this year. We are in the midst of standing up a DR site and I'm trying to see how we can bundle this together. So instead of standing up 2 libraries I'd like to stand up one large enough to handle both the Veritas and TSM backups. I'd like to add on to what we have here if they could live together nicely.
The 3494 we have is currently shared by the mainframe and 2 TSM servers. We already know we have to bring up a 3494 at the DR site for the mainframe/TSM and another for Veritas. I would like however to send part of the 3494 we have now to handle portions of the TSM backups along with getting hardware for the IBM. If we stood up an LTO library here to start migrating off the 3494 that is doable. I would then need LTO at the DR site for TSM but would like to see if a single large enough unit would suffice.
So my original question is still, can a LTO library be shared by both systems provided they each have their own dedicated drives? Has anyone done this or think it can be done?
Any information, be it in the form of links to articles or direct knowledge would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Geoff
