On 20 nov 2008, at 13:40, Mark Stapleton wrote:

From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf
Of Ian Smith

What experiences do people have of library/drive control for SL8500?

I am trying to work out the pros and cons of either using TSM Library
manager with ACSLS or the Gresham agents. Does anyone have any

thoughts

or experiences regarding performance, stability, ease of use etc?

There isn't anything that TSM's built-in library management has that
Gresham offers. Indeed, getting multiple TSM instances resync'd with
Gresham can cause (temporary) inability to use the library during that
resync. Stability isn't usually an issue with either TSM library
management or Gresham. Gresham requires additional administration that
TSM's library management doesn't need.

there are a few things that gresham EDT offers that TSM doesn't. I
don't get your comment on syncing, both EDT and TSM suffer from
changed drive paths when you upgrade TSM. Both require a bit of
administration, it's just in different places.

And TSM's library management doesn't have an outrageous price tag.

(You'll still need to use ACSLS, of course.)

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