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Re: Running out of Tape Slots in Library

2006-10-24 07:51:43
Subject: Re: Running out of Tape Slots in Library
From: William Boyer <bjdboyer AT COMCAST DOT NET>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 07:54:06 -0400
You'll have to upgrade to at least 5.2.7.0 to get support for LTO3 drives.

With other libraries, adding expansion is just as simple as shutting everything 
down, adding the capacity and bringing it back up
again. I've done this several times on 3583, 3584 and the new TS33xx libraries. 
After Winders and the drivers reboot, TSM sees the
additional capacity. Just SHOW SLOTS <library> to verify. You may need to run 
an AUDIT LIBRARY if the SCSI ID's of the tape slots
change. I do this first thing anyway.

Bill Boyer
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-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Bill Dourado
Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 7:01 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Running out of Tape Slots in Library
Importance: High

Hello,

I am running out of tape slots on my Neo 4000  and I need  to approach the boss 
regarding an upgrade.

I have two upgrade options in mind.

1) Add a library expansion module to increase  the number of slots by 60.
    The question here is -   Is  this purely an hardware upgrade which the

    hardware engineer performs and TSM automatically sees the extra slots?


2) Replace the four existing LTO-2 tape drives with LTO-3 drives and buy a
    few more tapes.
    Any TSM actions here to get the LTO-3 drives to work  ?

Current setup
TSM Server 5.2.2.0 for Windows
Library Overland Neo 4000 with 58 slots.
Library type SCSI
Four LTO-2 tape drives

Many Thanks

Bill




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