> This appears to be a very good description of the entire Lanfree process.
> I'm currently trying to get this very thing to work, so I'm looking for a
> bit more detail.  In my environment I have a Compaq 5026 library with 4
> drives in it.  Before this Lanfree experiment started, I had a path
> statement for my library and 1 path statement for each of the 4 drives.
> When you say that a path between the drive and Lanfree client needs defined,
> does this mean that I have 4 additional path statements for each storage
> agent?  Also, what do you do for the path to the library from the storage
> agent?  That appears to be where I'm hung up.

The TSM Storage Agent pub gives all of the commands necessary on both the
SAN client and the TSM Sever to set all of this up, via a concret example.

Basically, yes, you do have to define paths for each client to each SAN
attached drive.



>
> TIA
>
> Steve Argersinger
> Ruan Transportation
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David E Ehresman [mailto:deehre01 AT LOUISVILLE DOT EDU]
> Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 8:55 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: migration from LAN to LAN free concerns.
>
> To do Lanfree to tape, the tapes must be SAN attached to all tsm clients
> that will do Lanfree.  The tape drives are defined to the tsm server and
> a path is defined between the drives and the tsm server and between the
> drives and each lanfree tsm client.  Each lanfree tsm client machine
> must have a tsm storage agent running on it
>
> The tsm client starts a lanfree backup which connects to tsm storage
> agent running on the same machine.  The storage agent informs the tsm
> server it need a tape mount, the tsm server mounts a tape on a free san
> drive and tells the storage agent which drive the tape is mounted on.
> The data is then written directly from the disk to the tape on the tsm
> lanfree client machine using what ever path is normally used to the disk
> and the san path to the tape.
>
> David
>
>

Steve Roder, University at Buffalo
HOD Service Coordinator
VM Systems Programmer
UNIX Systems Administrator (Solaris and AIX)
TSM/ADSM Administrator
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