>> I respectfully disagree. I found FCP-based LTO libraries better behaved than >> our old 3494. And before you ask, I do come from WDSF (aka ADSM V1) and ADSM >> V2 and originally bought the 3494 with 3590 for the purpose. The price of the >> extra CPU (and licenses) on z/OS will probably outweigh what you pay for a >> decent library. We currently run a two IFL TSM and I don't care to think what >> that would cost me on z/OS. We would have long ago lost the installation to >> our decentral server group.
>The cost of creating a new set of operational procedures, having your tape >librarians deal with an additional (and incompatible) set of tape >technology, No tape librarians involved. The TSM admin puts new volumes into the libraries and they stay there forever. >and the additional complexity of recovery if you have achieved a >high level of automation with the z/OS side is non-trivial, We have two libraries at two locations. No physical movement to automate involved. TSM itself manages the duplication from one site to the other. >People are the expensive part of this equation, Quite. That is why we went for the second library at the second location. It was easy to convince management that was the cheaper solution, instead of shipping volumes back and forth. >and the TSM on Linux solution uses a lot more people >resources to manage than the z/OS version. Why? If the only reason is tape handling then I don't see it. We saved peoplepower moving from TSM/VM to TSM/Linux. >(God, it must be a new year. I'm actually arguing *for* a z/OS-based >solution. I guess I can always claim temporary insanity. 8-)) Sanity defense accepted ;-) Best regards, Pieter Harder [email protected] tel +31-73-6837133 / +31-6-47272537 Brabant Water N.V. Postbus 1068 5200 BC 's-Hertogenbosch http://www.brabantwater.nl Handelsregister: 16005077 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
