Any success stories out there for using large amounts of serial-access disk with TSM?
At 06:19 PM 11/29/2005, you wrote:
Richard, I share your pain. We have an EMC Clariion CX500 SAN. We have found that AIX in general, and TSM in particular, can just "hose" the sucker.
> I have about 6TB of san disk space used for nightly backups and the > management of it is just a pain.
> I am curious what kind of problems you are running into. At the TSM > Symposium at Oxford this year, IBM indicated that they were going to > further develop the serial access disk support in TSM. And, TSM 5.3 > just added the ability for a SAD devclass to span multiple > filesystems. After hearing this, we have been leaning towards > investing in inexpensive disk managed by TSM rather than buying a VTL > appliance. I'm interested in other's comments about where, > specifically, they are having problems managing SAD directly by TSM.
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