1) Can you run LAN-free when your SAN and tape drives are in one location and your TSM server is in another location?
We have our main data center with the big TSM server in Boise, Idaho. We have a smaller data center with a small SAN in Phoenix, AZ, about 2000km away. The Phoenix data center has its own SAN that is just a little too large to back up across the WAN. We're wondering if we can avoid having to buy a separate TSM server and just put a small library in Phoenix that would run LAN-free, with IP robot controller that talks to the TSM server in Boise. Conceptually, can it work? 2) What do you know about/think of Scalar 24 libraries, specifically for LAN-free work? The small library we are looking at is a Scalar 24 from Adic. I've never actually seen one, but the brochures talk about LAN-free connections. If the remote use concept is possible, will this library work? Thanks, Kai.