Hello everyone! A little background of our new environment would be 2 TSM servers, 1 development and 1 production, are AIX 5.2 at the TSM 5.2.2.5 level. They will be attached, through a McData 6064 director, to an STK SL8500 library with 18 LTO2 tape drives.
I am not sure what device drivers to use for our environment. I was looking at the TSM Implementation Guide on pg. 89 and it stated that if we use LTO drives we should use the IBMTape device driver instead of TSM's device driver. Is this correct? Also, when I used the link from that site it didn't exist, but if I used ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/devdrvr then it worked and I found the links to the device drivers for the AIX TSM servers would be ATape device drivers and the Solaris LAN-free client servers would be IBMTape device drivers. Also, with our configuration and 2 TSM servers using Gresham EDT and ACSLS7.1, what type of library do I define in TSM? I have defined an external library, but now I'm wondering if I need an automated library along with a shared library defined with our production TSM server being the primary library manager? We will be sharing all 18 drives and the tape pool. As far as I know the scratch tape pool is defined within ACSLS. For the definition of the automated library it states that this is for SCSI libraries only, which ours is fibre. My thoughts on this are that I would define the external library (with Lan-free capabilities) and then define a shared library, but you don't give the master library the same name as the shared library. I guess I'm just a little confused on how this works and will be set up in our environment. Any suggestions would be appreciated! Thanks! ******************************** Joni Moyer Highmark Storage Systems Work:(717)302-6603 Fax:(717)302-5974 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ********************************