Hi

I'm taking it as if you'd like to have standalone tape drive which are 
connected through your SAN/network environment. Most standalone tape drives I 
know of use SAS or LVD interfaces. FC is most commonly used in tape libraries 
since FC is aimed at larger, centralized environments.

I dont know of any tape drives that are utilizing a network connection, since 
the network connection would require intelligent hardware to utilize 
(standalone tape drives usually dont have an TCP/IP stack built in to them).

If you tried explaining what you are trying to accomplish having the standalone 
tape drives, perhaps it would be easier to help you out. As far as I know, TSM 
cant utilize a network-attached tape drive so I'm assuming you're planning 
something else.

Best Regards

Daniel Sparrman




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Från: Grigori Solonovitch 
Sänt av: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" 
Datum: 01/19/2012 11:25
Ärende: Low level tape drives for TSM


Hello Everybody,
We are using disk pools at Head Office and Disaster Site connected by fiber 
optics links (DS8100 online mirroring and 1GB Ethernet).
We are using SCSI tape drives 3590 only for out-of-country copies with daily 
amount less than 1TB. We need to replace 3590 drives by something newer.
We are looking for tape drives:

1)      supported by TSM 5.5 and 6.X;

2)      supported by AIX on Power6 and Power7 logical partitions;

3)      connected via fiber optics switch (at least 2Gb/s) or via network (at 
least 1Gb/s);

4)      with volume capacity 128GB or more (not compressed);

5)      just drive or manual library like 3590.
I will deeply appreciate any suggestions or links to documents.
Kindest regards,

Grigori G. Solonovitch
Senior Technical Architect  Ahli United Bank Kuwait  www.ahliunited.com.kw

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