LTO-5 Experience?

2011-01-19 Thread Christian Svensson
Hi, Does anyone run LTO-5 libraries today? How are your experience of LTO-5? I have only installed one library and we got a lot of problem with does drives. Just wonder if that is only one timer or if many other also have problems with LTO-5 I don't care what TSM version you are running. Best

Re: LTO-5 Experience?

2011-01-19 Thread BEYERS Kurt
Christian, We are using 6 IBM LTO5 drives in a STK SL8500 library without any abnormal issues so far, the TSM server is 6.2.1. The media still is LTO4 though, waiting for the price of LTO5 cartridges to drop... Best regardsn Kurt -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Antwort: LTO-5 Experience?

2011-01-19 Thread TSM
Hello Christian, running ts3200 with 2 lto5 drives and lto5 media for about 2 month. no problems so far. speed up to 140MB/sec (tape tp tape) firmware library 9.20 firmware drives A6S0 with best regards stefan savoric

Re: LTO-5 Experience?

2011-01-19 Thread Gary Bowers
I have a customer that is running 6 LTO-5 drives in a 3310 using IBM LTO5 media. They have had many issues with LTO5. In the past 6 months, they have replaced 4 drives mostly due to stuck tapes. Several engineering firmwares have been added, and they are now finally able to eject tapes more

Re: LTO-5 Experience?

2011-01-19 Thread Park, Rod
We installed 12 LTO5 drives a couple of months ago We have a mixture of LTO2, LTO4, and LTO5 drives in our library. LTO5 drives are only using LTO4 media, but we haven't had any issues as of yet. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of

Re: LTO-5 Experience?

2011-01-19 Thread Skylar Thompson
We've been running six LTO5 drives in an STK SL3000 with no issues for a few months now. We've had way fewer issues than with our older STK SL3000 that has eight LTO4 drives. You definitely want to make sure you have enough bandwidth from the servers to the drives. You probably want FC8 to the

Re: Windows 2000 client

2011-01-19 Thread Clark, Margaret
We have been on TSM server 6.n since August 21st 2009, currently at 6.2.2.0. Our oldest clients are at 5.1.5.0; we have several clients at 5.3.2.0 and 5.3.4.0. None of them has had a problem. - Margaret Clark -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager

Re: LTO-5 Experience?

2011-01-19 Thread Steven Harris
Skylar are you using IBM or HP Drives in your SL3000? Thanks Steve On 20/01/2011 5:24 AM, Skylar Thompson wrote: We've been running six LTO5 drives in an STK SL3000 with no issues for a few months now. We've had way fewer issues than with our older STK SL3000 that has eight LTO4 drives. You

Re: LTO-5 Experience?

2011-01-19 Thread Skylar Thompson
HP for both the LTO4 and LTO5 libraries. After talking to Sun/Oracle it sounded like the IBM drives don't work so well, at least in the SL3000. The engineer mentioned that there problems with the robot inserting tapes too quickly for the loading mechanism. On 01/19/11 11:25 AM, Steven Harris

Professional services survey

2011-01-19 Thread Capo
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TSM with out DRM

2011-01-19 Thread Lakshminarayanan, Rajesh
Hi Guys, I have a request to remove the DRM license from the existing TSM setup. Currently we dont; have a DR server and I know that TSM can function smoothly with out DRM facility. Can someone share me your views on the below queries: 1) How TSM is going to react when the DRM

Antwort: Re: [ADSM-L] LTO-5 Experience?

2011-01-19 Thread Alexander Heindl
We are using two Quantum (former ADIC) Scalar i6000 Libraries with 8 HP drives each, since May 2010. Before that I had 6 IBM LTO3 each in i2000. The libraries remained, just were upgraded to i6000. In the beginning we had some small troubles which were library, driver or firmware specific, I