into perspective.
Tom Kauffman
NIBCO, Inc
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Timothy Hughes
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 10:21 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: TSM best Practices for tape drives using FC
I read in a the Tivoli guide
I read in a the Tivoli guide (A brief Introduction to IBM Tivoli Storage
Manager Architecture)
under Tape Drives (best practices)
Where it say's Carefully consider card and bus throughput when attaching
tape
drives to systems most protocal/tape combinations can accommodate 2-3
tape,
drives per
I have (2) TSM servers on AIX (H50 and H70) with 2GB FC adapter. I have
(15) 3590 and 6 (3580) tape drives hanging off a single adapter from each
server. I'm sure in a lab somewhere that my single adapter could be shown
to be a bottleneck when trying to stream data to all those
drives...however
Thanks David,
One thing I forgot to mention is that our TSM servers are now attached
to a (IBM p670).
David Nicholson wrote:
I have (2) TSM servers on AIX (H50 and H70) with 2GB FC adapter. I have
(15) 3590 and 6 (3580) tape drives hanging off a single adapter from each
server. I'm sure in
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 10:21 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: TSM best Practices for tape drives using FC
I read in a the Tivoli guide (A brief Introduction to IBM Tivoli Storage
Manager Architecture)
under Tape Drives (best practices)
Where it say's Carefully consider card and bus
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 10:21 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: TSM best Practices for tape drives using FC
I read in a the Tivoli guide (A brief Introduction to IBM Tivoli Storage
Manager Architecture)
under Tape Drives (best practices)
Where it say's Carefully consider card and bus
