Hello Wanda, As TSM allocates drives in order, you have to distribute drive between the HBAs in a round robin way (with 4 hba : drive 1 on hba 1, drive 2 on hba... drive 5 on hba 1 and so on). I prefer doing this at VTL level using mapping policy (i.e access groups on Data Domain).
Le 13 octobre 2014 18:28:36 CEST, "Prather, Wanda" <[email protected]> a écrit : >TSM 7.1.1 on AIX >So I have a customer putting in a VTL, which will have 96 virtual >drives. >Those virtual drives will be spread across 4 HBA's. > >What sort of strategies to people use to keep TSM from starting a >BACKUP stgpool process and picking 4 virtual drives all on the same >HBA? >Is it dependent on the order you do your DEFINE DRIVE commands? Better >to set up multiple virtual libraries? > >Any suggestions appreciated. > >Wanda > > >Wanda Prather | Senior Technical Specialist | >[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> | >www.icfi.com<http://www.icfi.com/> | 410-868-4872 (m) >ICF International | 7125 Thomas Edison Dr., Suite 100, Columbia, Md >|443-718-4900 (o) -- Erwann SIMON Envoyé de mon téléphone Android avec K-9 Mail. Excusez la brièveté.
