Re: TSM Disk Pool Management

Manuel,

The remote copypool ended up being NetWare 6, i can serve up a 8TB volume to 
TSM with Novell Storage Services (NSS). NetWare's Common Internet FileSystem 
(CIFS) allows TSM access without loading a NetWare client on the TSM server. 

i chose this approach because copypools can only access sequential media, so 
NAS was my only option. It also appears copypools can only have a single device 
which limited me to one NAS volume per copypool. Windows volumes have a limit 
of 2TB which was too small for my backuppool, short of having to break it up 
into multiple 2TB  backuppools and copypools, i decide to use NetWare to get 
around this, we are also a NetWare shop so this was a no brainier.

Everything seems to working fine so far but it's still new. I also have another 
7TB of ATA disk arrays on order that should get here in a couple of weeks, the 
price is now down to ~$3,000/TB. 

Let me know how this solution sound to you and also let me know what you decide 
to go with.

Thanks,

john



>>> <Manuel_Sanchez AT assurant DOT com> 02/20/03 09:03AM >>>
John,
I read your message on adsm.org Mailing List.
I wonder if you implemented the remote copy pool.
We are considering a similar solution, and we are talking to DataCore and
FalconStor.
Thanks,
Manuel J. Sanchez
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