It's that wonderful time of year -- budget time! I currently have an IBM 3584 with 10 LTO-1 tape drives and two bays. The drives are all SCSI attached. The lease will be up around August 31 next year.
I'm planning on replacing the LTO-1 drives with LTO-2 drives. Right now, I'm thinking of doing 6 drives as fiber-attach and 4 as SCSI. First, my TSM host really has room for just two (more) fiber adapters (660-6M1 with 3 I/O drawers, with each adapter on a seperate PCI bus). Second, I have my SAP DB server configured so I can manually move TSM to it if my TSM server is down for a significant length of time -- and there's no room for more fiber adapters. But I've already got the SCSI cards installed (and the lease for these systems has 24 months to go). Does this make sense? I'd end up with 3 drives on each fiber and one drive on each SCSI card. We don't do SAN backups and I don't see SAN backups in the near future (and if I did, the maximum drive count would be 5 as our clients are currently configured). TIA Tom Kauffman NIBCO, Inc CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail and any attachments are for the exclusive and confidential use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not read, distribute or take action in reliance upon this message. If you have received this in error, please notify us immediately by return e-mail and promptly delete this message and its attachments from your computer system. We do not waive attorney-client or work product privilege by the transmission of this message.
