Re: Changes to Tape Management hardware in Data Center

2004-10-18 Thread Shannon Bach
again, Shannon "Gee, Norman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10/15/2004 03:14 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"                 To:        [EMAIL PROTECTED]         cc:                 Subject:    

Re: Changes to Tape Management hardware in Data Center

2004-10-15 Thread Gee, Norman
ridges. I backup my database to VTS, but my offsite I take a DB SNAPSHOT to a 3590 cartridge. -Original Message- From: Steve Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 4:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Changes to Tape Management hardware in Data Center Shan

Re: Changes to Tape Management hardware in Data Center

2004-10-15 Thread Shannon Bach
> 10/14/2004 08:40 PM Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager"                 To:        [EMAIL PROTECTED]         cc:                 Subject:        Re: Changes to Tape Management hardware in Data Center I at one time had my primary backup pool go into a VTS.  Mine is a 3494-B18, older

Re: Changes to Tape Management hardware in Data Center

2004-10-14 Thread Gee, Norman
all to native 3590 cartridges. I backup my database to VTS, but my offsite I take a DB SNAPSHOT to a 3590 cartridge. -Original Message- From: Steve Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 4:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Changes to Tape Management

Re: Changes to Tape Management hardware in Data Center

2004-10-14 Thread Steve Harris
Shannon, What was the reason for purchasing the VTL? I'd surmise it is probably to do tape consolidation on your mainframe operations. *caveat! I have not actually used a 3494 VTL* Past posts here have indicated that TSM is not a good fit for the VTL because of the overhead of staging data th

Changes to Tape Management hardware in Data Center

2004-10-14 Thread Shannon Bach
Currently preparing changes to our tape hardware in the Data Center.  Current TSM Server is Version 5, Release 1, Level 7.0 on OS390 2.10 MVS Mainframe.  We are moving to ZOS sometime before January. The change at this time is our tape environment.  Will probably give too much detail here but I ne