----- Original Message ----- From: "David le Blanc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 3:12 PM Subject: TSM Server LAN-FREE as load balancing?
HiI all. After looking at TSM 5.3, it seems a tidy new feature is the ability to use a Storage Agent as a 'proxy' to tsm. You can now perform a LAN based backup to a storage agent, which can then assign drives and write to tape.. This leads me to believe, assuming you dont use much in the way of disk storage pools, you could create a few TSM storage-agent-only nodes with fast network connectivity, and distribute the load of clients to these agents, each of which has lan-free access to the library. The network link between clients and the single 'main' TSM would no longer be the bottleneck.. Now, if you were talking about using a disk (FILE devclass) storage pool, it gets more complicated, but I was just wondering if that is a feasible use of that feature? David -- oh man , awsome ... i really like the idea !!! i'll consider that as soon as i get rid of ANS1312E Server media mount not possible ANR0535W Transaction failed for session 44556 for node HPTUNIX_STA (HPUX) - insufficient mount points available to satisfy the request. over my LAN-free configuration ... the comunication works fine but this is killing me ... umph ... i've gone offtopic, sorry ... but if someone can help, thanks goran
