Sorry, yes all these drives are Fibre Channel attached going through
McData Sphereon 4500 switches.

AIX 5.1
TSM 5.1.5.0


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eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP

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-----Original Message-----
From: Cook, Dwight E [mailto:DWIGHT.E.COOK AT saic DOT com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 8:18 AM
To: 'jbassi AT IHWY DOT COM'
Subject: RE: 3494 Partitioning or TSM Library Manager


I take it the drives are fiber attached...
if not, you won't be able to share them between all three systems...

Dwight


-----Original Message-----
From: Joshua Bassi [mailto:jbassi AT IHWY DOT COM]
Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 10:19 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: 3494 Partitioning or TSM Library Manager


All,

I am deploying 3 new TSM server on a single p690 LPAR.  There is a 3494
with 32-tape drives attached to the system.  I have a choice to make
whether to use the old 3494 category scheme to separate my 3 TSM servers
or should I use the TSM Library Manger feature to control access to all
32 tape drives?

First of all, how many customers are using the Library Manager feature
of TSM?  What kind of caveats are there in deploying this feature?  How
well does the automatic tape drive allocation work?  Thanks in advance.


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Joshua S. Bassi
IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark
Tivoli Certified Consultant -ADSM/TSM
eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP

AIX, HACMP, Storage, TSM Consultant
Cell (831) 595-3962
jbassi AT ihwy DOT com