Re: Expanding our system
David, Why would you buy a new library? Expand the 3494 with extra frames, and add more drives in those frames. More than one server can share a 3494, and it would take a mighty workload to make the robot run out of puff. Steve Harris AIX and TSM Admin Queensland Health, Brisbane Australia [EMAIL PROTECTED] 18/05/2002 5:21:48 We currently have a 3494 library with two 3490E1A drives attached to a WinNT4 box running quad Xeon 550's and a gig of RAM. TSM is version 4.2. We have about 30-40gig of data coming in over about an eight hour time window each evening and night. Things are fine for now. We are looking to do some improvements in the next several months. First thing we would like to do is to reload the server with Win 2000 and TSM version 5.xx. In our shop, we can only speak MS. Other OS's aren't an option. This we would like to do in 3-4 months. I think we can handle this ourselves. Next on the agenda, we are working towards getting some kind of a SAN in the budget for the first of the year. I don't know all of the details at the moment but they are talking about 3-4 terabyte capacity. Don't know how this will impact on new data coming into TSM. But the boss man wants to see about adding another complete library with two more tape drives. The people we that installed our original system are gone so we can't go back to them for more hardware. Any suggestions on someone to do this for us? David Tyree Microcomputer Specialist South Georgia Medical Center 229.333.1155 Confidential Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. ** This e-mail, including any attachments sent with it, is confidential and for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). This confidentiality is not waived or lost if you receive it and you are not the intended recipient(s), or if it is transmitted/ received in error. Any unauthorised use, alteration, disclosure, distribution or review of this e-mail is prohibited. It may be subject to a statutory duty of confidentiality if it relates to health service matters. If you are not the intended recipient(s), or if you have received this e-mail in error, you are asked to immediately notify the sender by telephone or by return e-mail. You should also delete this e-mail message and destroy any hard copies produced. **
Expanding our system
We currently have a 3494 library with two 3490E1A drives attached to a WinNT4 box running quad Xeon 550's and a gig of RAM. TSM is version 4.2. We have about 30-40gig of data coming in over about an eight hour time window each evening and night. Things are fine for now. We are looking to do some improvements in the next several months. First thing we would like to do is to reload the server with Win 2000 and TSM version 5.xx. In our shop, we can only speak MS. Other OS's aren't an option. This we would like to do in 3-4 months. I think we can handle this ourselves. Next on the agenda, we are working towards getting some kind of a SAN in the budget for the first of the year. I don't know all of the details at the moment but they are talking about 3-4 terabyte capacity. Don't know how this will impact on new data coming into TSM. But the boss man wants to see about adding another complete library with two more tape drives. The people we that installed our original system are gone so we can't go back to them for more hardware. Any suggestions on someone to do this for us? David Tyree Microcomputer Specialist South Georgia Medical Center 229.333.1155 Confidential Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message.
Re: Expanding our system
Nikolai Sonin System Architect ESI Group 28381 Encina Drive Suite 100 Winters CA, 95694-9007 530-795-0200 ext. 235 Tyree, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/17/2002 12:21 PM Please respond to ADSM: Dist Stor Manager To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Expanding our system We currently have a 3494 library with two 3490E1A drives attached to a WinNT4 box running quad Xeon 550's and a gig of RAM. TSM is version 4.2. We have about 30-40gig of data coming in over about an eight hour time window each evening and night. Things are fine for now. We are looking to do some improvements in the next several months. The 3494 can be upgraded to 3590E1A using direct Fibre Channel attach. I do not know if the 3490's can coexist with the Fibre Channel 3590's, but I do have customers that have 3494's with both SCSI 3490's and SCSI 3590's in the same library. They can not be in the same frame, but if they are in separate frames it works well. First thing we would like to do is to reload the server with Win 2000 and TSM version 5.xx. In our shop, we can only speak MS. Other OS's aren't an option. This we would like to do in 3-4 months. I think we can handle this ourselves. Next on the agenda, we are working towards getting some kind of a SAN in the budget for the first of the year. I don't know all of the details at the moment but they are talking about 3-4 terabyte capacity. Don't know how this will impact on new data coming into TSM. But the boss man wants to see about adding another complete library with two more tape drives. For 3-4 Terabytes in 8 hours you would need 10 SCSI attached 3590E1A's. For fibre channel you might be able to use less, but realistically you are probably running what 20 - 30 Windows servers. You will 10 drives just to be able to do the tape copy pools and DRM management The people we that installed our original system are gone so we can't go back to them for more hardware. Any suggestions on someone to do this for us? David Tyree Microcomputer Specialist South Georgia Medical Center 229.333.1155 Confidential Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message.
