Allen, 
Thanks for the kind words, but it's not me, it's the Fibre.

One of my sites is buying a VTL to replace the primary pool.
But putting the VTL OFFSITE, and keeping the 3584 for the Copypool
onsite.

We're even using a hand-me-down Windows server as a backup domain
controller in the offsite center.
It won't have any work to do on a normal day, but will stay current
because they replicate regularly, and it will take over if the primary
blows up.
If disaster strikes, we don't lose the Windows domain, and we have an
(almost) unlimited number of drives for recovery.

With Fibre, many new configs are possible.  Just depends on what kind of
distances you require, your access to fibre,  whether you load will
tolerate FCIP speeds, your budget, etc.

And it would get even easier if we could only get an upgrade in the
speed of light sometime soon.......
  
Wanda Prather
"I/O, I/O, It's all about I/O"  -(me)



-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Allen S. Rout
Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 12:50 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: Making TSM twin-center compliant

>> On Fri, 1 Sep 2006 10:21:03 -0400, "Prather, Wanda"
<Wanda.Prather AT JHUAPL DOT EDU> said:

> An even better idea is putting the PRIMARY pool at the twin center,
and
> the COPY pool at your main center.  That way in a disaster that hits
> your clients, your TSM server is unaffected; you're ready to do
restores
> as soon as they give you something to restore to, and you have all
your
> DRIVES available.

Ooo, Wanda.  You are Kewl.

- Allen S. Rout
- Now I've got to write up ANOTHER proposal.