TS3500 test environment

2013-01-09 Thread Thomas Denier
I am in the process of setting up a test environment for our Version 6 TSM servers. The servers run under zSeries Linux and are currently at the 6.2.2.0 level. The main motivation for setting up a test environment at this time is to support an upgrade in the near future. Our production

Re: TS3500 test environment

2013-01-09 Thread Thomas Denier
/2013 11:56 Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TS3500 test environment On TS3500s, I believe the library control interface for a partition is assigned to one of the tape drives in that partition. Thus, with no drives, there can be no control of the partition. I believe the answer is that this is not possible

Re: TS3500 test environment

2013-01-09 Thread Paul Zarnowski
On TS3500s, I believe the library control interface for a partition is assigned to one of the tape drives in that partition. Thus, with no drives, there can be no control of the partition. I believe the answer is that this is not possible - you must have at least one drive assigned to each

Re: TS3500 test environment

2013-01-09 Thread Ehresman,David E.
: [ADSM-L] TS3500 test environment I agree that we would not be able to retain a control path to the partition when all the tape drives were gone, but that would not in itself be a problem at times when we were not performing tests involving tape activity. The question is whether the TS3500 firmware

Re: TS3500 test environment

2013-01-09 Thread Remco Post
You need at least one drive in your alms partition with a control path, but, that drive can (I think) also be in another alms partition. Just make sure it's only used actively in either PR or in Test at one time. -- Met vriendelijke groeten/Kind regards, Remco Post r.p...@plcs.nl +31 6

Re: TS3500 test environment

2013-01-09 Thread Paul Zarnowski
There is a dynamic drive sharing capability, but be aware that you cannot use it if you are also using drive encryption. At 05:01 PM 1/9/2013, Remco Post wrote: You need at least one drive in your alms partition with a control path, but, that drive can (I think) also be in another alms