Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but there is one way to check whether
your firmware is up-to-date or not. If you have not assigned your
library IP address/DNS entry, do so. You can then access your 3584 via a
web URL line. In our case, I type 3584_1 (DNS name) on the URL line, hit
enter, and like magic I have a Java applet letting me see many things
about my library. If I have left out a step, please fill it in, because
this is a good way to see much info about your library, including
drive/library firmware levels. It even provides a firmware update
wizard!
-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Chet Osborn
Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 4:18 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM Performance with 3584 LTO-2 Drives
Thanks for the replies, but no luck yet.
The data being migrated all belonged to a single node, and only two
tape mounts were involved.
The drive firmware is up to date. I'll be damned if I can figure out
how to determine what the 3584 library firmware level is or how to
download it. The device driver (Atape) software is up to data as of a
month o\r so ago.
I've double-checked the zoning, and everything seems as it should be
(server and disk in one zone and server and tape drives in another
zone).
At 02:23 PM 10/20/2005, you wrote:
>Another factor to consider: does the tape pool in question have
>collocation turned on? If so, then depending on the number of tapes in
>the pool, the type of collocation in effect and the number of client
nodes
>or filespaces to be migrated, there could be a very large number of
tape
>mounts occurring. With only two drives, and depending on the mount
>retention period specified on the device class, I could believe that an
>awful lot of that 10.5 hours might've been spent fiddling around with
tape
>mounts, idle drives, etc., and not actually writing data.
>
>Regards,
>Bill
>
>Bill Kelly
>Auburn University OIT
>334-844-9917
>
> > It also wouldn't hurt to verify that your library and drive code
> > (firmware) are up-to-date.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of
> > Jim Skinner
> > Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 11:36 AM
> > To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> > Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM Performance with 3584 LTO-2 Drives
> >
> > I believe the first thing to check is the zoning of the fiber
channel
> > network. TSM server and disk in one zone and in a different zone put
tsm
> > server and tape. We had a similar problem.
> > >>> osborn AT RPI DOT EDU 10/20/05 11:22 AM >>>
> > Hi,
> >
> > We're recently connected a 3584 with one L52 frame containing 2
LTO-2
> > fiber attached drives to our AIX server. We'll be using FAStT SATA
> > disk as a primary storage pool and migrating from disk to tape. Can
> > anyone with a similar setup provide any statistics on how this
works
> > in the real world, i.e. MB/sec or GB/hour from disk to tape.
> >
> > A test migration of 259 GB (152422 files) took 10.5 hours to
> > complete. This seems like abysmally slow performance, or is it
> > reasonable with a large numbers of small files?
> >
> > TSM version: 5.3.1
> >
> > MoveBatchSize 500
> > MoveSizeThresh 512
> >
> > AIX version: 5.1
> >
> > Chet Osborn
> > Systems Programmer
> > Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
> >
> > Jim Skinner
> > The University of Kansas Hospital
> > Westwood Campus
> > Information Technology Systems
> > 2330 Shawnee Mission Parkway, Suite 201/068
> > Westwood KS 66205-2005
> > 913-588-4787
> >
> >
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