Doesn't it depend?

        If she wants to dedicate certain drives to certain TSM servers,
she can do that simply with the functions built into the 3590 library.
Piece of cake, we do that on all our libraries.

        If she wants to connect the drives to both the AIX and Solaris
host at the same time and have them ~share~ the drives, she would need
to use the TSM library manager function so that each TSM server knows
who is using the drives at any time.

        Right?

Ben


-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Lloyd Dieter
Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 11:59 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: Please help me NOT migrate


On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 13:45:03 -0400
Eliza Lau <lau AT VTCAT.CC.VT DOT EDU> wrote thusly:

>
> This is something I can look into.  I can paritiion the 3494 so each 
> server has its own frame, tape drives, and tapes.  But will the 3494 
> control manager get confused when 2 TSM servers try to talk to it at 
> the same time?  Doesn't one has to be the Library Manager while the 
> other the 'slave'?
>
> Eliza
>


Nope...just have to assign different private/scratch categories on the
second server from the first.

The 3494 as it's own built-in library manager that can handle (I think)
32 attached hosts.

-Lloyd

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