That's correct as long as you install the Storage Agent on the client, which
"borrows" a drive from the TSM server and send only the management info
through the LAN. Therefore you needs the (expensive) STA license and to my
knowledge the library sharing option.

We used it once but had to disable it, since in our environment (W2K
Client/STA and AIX TSM 4.2.0.1) we cannot read most of the data being backed
up, because the real blockheader on the tape does not match the expecting
one. But it's fast, together with the TDP for Domino we achieved ~18MB/sec
throughput for each tape drive (3 in parallel). I hope, IBM/Tivoli can
resolve this issue soon.

Joerg Nouvertne
http://home.wtal.de/the_swordsman

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On Behalf Of
> Chris Young
> Sent: Dienstag, 23. Oktober 2001 21:37
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: SAN Environment
>
>
> One other thing that is interesting to note...If you are using
> LAN-Free, you
> can create a management class that points to a disk pool and a management
> class that points to a tape pool and then make entries in the
> incl/excl list
> to include these management classes.  By doing this, you can direct some
> data to go over the SAN directly to tape (LAN-Free) and have
> other data pass
> over the network to disk.  While I have only experimented with
> this at this
> time, it seems to have potential performance benefits if you network
> bandwidth available.
>
> Christopher S. Young
> Senior System Engineer
> Gresham Enterprise Storage
> www.greshamstorage.com
> Office: 303.413.1799 x 205
> Mobile: 303.717.2745
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lambelet,Rene,VEVEY,GL-IS/CIS [mailto:Rene.Lambelet AT NESTLE DOT COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 12:57 PM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: SAN Environment
>
>
> You can backup LAN-free to disc if you have SANErgy installed on
> a metadata
> server.
> If not, you can only backup LAN-free to tapes.
>
> Regards,
>
> >       René Lambelet
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> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mauro Jr, Frank [SMTP:Frank.MauroJr AT LIBERTYMUTUAL DOT COM]
> > Sent: mardi, 23. octobre 2001 18:39
> > To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> > Subject:      SAN Environment
> >
> > We currently point our backups to disk.
> >
> > If we go to a SAN environment can we still use disk or will we
> have to go
> > to
> > tape?
> >
> > Frank Mauro
> > Backup and Recovery Services
> > Frank.MauroJr AT LibertyMutual DOT com
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> > Beeper Number: 888.797.0806
>
>