Allen, Thanks for the kind words, but it's not me, it's the Fibre. One of my sites is buying a VTL to replace the primary pool. But putting the VTL OFFSITE, and keeping the 3584 for the Copypool onsite.
We're even using a hand-me-down Windows server as a backup domain controller in the offsite center. It won't have any work to do on a normal day, but will stay current because they replicate regularly, and it will take over if the primary blows up. If disaster strikes, we don't lose the Windows domain, and we have an (almost) unlimited number of drives for recovery. With Fibre, many new configs are possible. Just depends on what kind of distances you require, your access to fibre, whether you load will tolerate FCIP speeds, your budget, etc. And it would get even easier if we could only get an upgrade in the speed of light sometime soon....... Wanda Prather "I/O, I/O, It's all about I/O" -(me) -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Allen S. Rout Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 12:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Making TSM twin-center compliant >> On Fri, 1 Sep 2006 10:21:03 -0400, "Prather, Wanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > An even better idea is putting the PRIMARY pool at the twin center, and > the COPY pool at your main center. That way in a disaster that hits > your clients, your TSM server is unaffected; you're ready to do restores > as soon as they give you something to restore to, and you have all your > DRIVES available. Ooo, Wanda. You are Kewl. - Allen S. Rout - Now I've got to write up ANOTHER proposal.
