Hi Joseph, Here too, many thanks for the hints.
But I'm lost now, as both Pierre and yourself are giving me conflictual opinions on how ALMS will affect the already existing partitions in my library ... On one hand I'm supposed to loose all of the existing setup, and on the other one everything should be preserved ... Is your advice the reflect of IBM's official position ? Whatever your answer will be, I would be glad to get your PPT document. Could you please send directly to the address noted below ? Thanks in advance ! Best regards. Arnaud ****************************************************************************** Panalpina Management Ltd., Basle, Switzerland, CIT Department Viadukstrasse 42, P.O. Box 4002 Basel/CH Phone: +41 (61) 226 11 11, FAX: +41 (61) 226 17 01 Direct: +41 (61) 226 19 78 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ****************************************************************************** -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Josef Weingand Sent: vendredi 13 juin 2008 11:13 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: ALMS activation on productive shared TS3500 library Hello, if you activate ALMS, then the already defined logical libraries will be preserved with all information and setups, like size, drives, cartridges ... How ever you should stop the activities on our TSM Server regarding libraries. After activation, which may take 1-3 min per Frame, you should: -check the logical libraries with the WebGUI -check if the cartridges "assigned" to the logical libries, this may take a while (after the automatic inventory) -if where the cartridges not assigned, then you need to assign the cart manually with the WegGUI (this should be normaly not necessary, but it happens once to me) - run an audit lib Thats all. After that you can change the library setup with ALMS capabilities. I have a ppt which explains ALMS and TS3500 WebGUI, but it is about 8 MB, if someone interested pls pop me email .... Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Kind regards Josef Weingand Senior IT Specialist Technical Sales Systems Storage Mobil +49 171 55 26 783 - Homeoffice Tel. +49 8845 757421 Fax +49 171 13 5526783 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SMS/eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Erich Clementi Geschäftsführung: Martin Jetter (Vorsitzender), Christian Diedrich, Christoph Grandpierre, Matthias Hartmann, Thomas Fell, Michael Diemer Sitz der Gesellschaft: Stuttgart Registergericht: Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRB 14562 WEEE-Reg.-Nr. DE 99369940 From: CAYE PIERRE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Date: 12.06.2008 17:49 Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] ALMS activation on productive shared TS3500 library Hi, Do you speak french ? May I make some suggestion... I work with a huge library, TS3500, with 7 virtual libraries (ALMS) defined... 1. Do you really need to partition the library ? A library manager is a good and scalable solution... 2. Traditionnal partitioning (ie physical partitioning) and ALMS (virtual libraries) are exclusive solution. You can't mixt the two solutions. I mean, if you activate ALMS, you should loose all physical partitioning Activating ALMS mean a complete change of strategy regarding how you use your 3584 To activate ALMS, which is a very nice "virtual libraries" solution... :-) A) note all tape label for each actual partition B) activate ALMS B.1) create two virtual library, corresponding to the old partitions allocate drives to each library connect and define all tape on server side B.2) allocate each tape to each corresponding virtual library B.3) launch audit libr on each tsm server C) create the third virtual library D) Enjoy it You will find all informations on IBM Infocenter : http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ts3500tl/v1r0/index.jsp Pierre > -----Message d'origine----- > De : ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] De la part > de PAC Brion Arnaud Envoyé : jeudi 12 juin 2008 15:54 À : > [email protected] Objet : [ADSM-L] ALMS activation on productive > shared TS3500 library > > Hi All, > > A probably trivial question, but I'm unable to find necessary > information in the books ... > > Our TSM setup is actually made of a TS3500 library equipped with 15 > LT03 drives and an expansion frame, the whole being shared between 2 > TSM servers, thru the mean of "standard" > library sharing (contiguous drive and slots for each logical library). > > So far, our logical libraries are looking like: > > - 1st partition : 7 tape drives (frame 1 row 1-7) and slots > 1025 -1375 > - 2nd partition : 8 tape drives (frame 1 rows 8-12, frame 2 rows 1-3) > and slots 1376-1707 > > Note that the 3 last drives (frame 2 rows 1-3) where recently added, > and are so far not used by any TSM server ... > > What we intend to do is to activate ALMS to create a 3rd partition > which should be made of 3 drives (the 3 ones which are still not > attributed) + approx. 50 tape slots, and to use that one for a new TSM > server. > > My questions are : > > - what are the possible issues (if any) that I could face after having > activated ALMS and created the 3rd partition ? > - Is there any chance that our productive TSM servers could loose > track of the already in use volumes, or of their drives ? > - Will my actual partitioning still exist after ALMS activation ... > > Well, in some words : what shall I care about, before activating ALMS > on an already partitioned and productive library ? > > Hopefully someone already went thru this and will give me some hints ! > > Thanks in advance ... > > Cheers. > > Arnaud > > ************************************************************** > ********** > ****** > Panalpina Management Ltd., Basle, Switzerland, CIT Department > Viadukstrasse 42, P.O. 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