Re: [ADSM-L] TS3500 ALMS question..

Hi,

Let say your library having 10 drives and 400 slots , now you want to 
create two partition then..

Logical partition A --- 4 drive and 150 slots---TSMserver A
Logical partation B--3 drives and 100 slots---TSMserverB

so now you created two partition and used 7 drives and 250 slots... your 3 
drives and 150 slots are unassigned.that can be use for further partition 
or later on added to existing partition.. 

Key thing--- you can not use drives from partition A for TSMSERVERB  same 
applicable to TSMSERVERA cannot use logical partition B drives...

For slots , it can be adjusted based on physical count, here if you are 
looking for VIO then you need to subtract total VIO slots from physical 
slots   then assign to purgation..

In ALMS the control path is managed by drives assignment - means you need 
to manage from library console. 

Once partition is created with VIO then on TSM /OS side you have 
visibility for only assigned partition based on zoning and drives 
assignment ...so on tsm/os side it is same as normal library 3500..

so when you issue the tapeutil command the output will be similar as 
stand-alone library  only difference is you will have IO slots from 
Virtual IO and drives/slots from ALMS...


Regards, 
Ajay Patel 







From:   Francisco Molero <fmolero AT yahoo DOT com>
To:     ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu, 
Date:   02/09/2012 07:40 AM
Subject:        Re: [ADSM-L] TS3500 ALMS question..
Sent by:        "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu>



Hi again,

I want to avoid to have  TSM Servers  with TLS. Former 3494 library had an 
option to add categories when we defined the library in TSM, then you also 
define the category and 3494 was able to distinguish the cartridge among 
TSM Servers. On the other hand you could join drives to TSM Servers even 
the same drive to several TSM Servers.. 


Now I am investigating with ALMS.  I am looking for this feature or 
similar but I don't know if it is possible in TS3500 with ALMS feature.

Regards, 


Fran



________________________________
 De: Robert J Molerio <robert.molerio AT NYU DOT EDU>
Para: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU 
Enviado: Jueves 9 de febrero de 2012 14:56
Asunto: Re: TS3500 ALMS question..
 
Well,

I have 5 TSM instances living in the same LPAR and all the drives are
defined to all TSM instances. Library sharing is turned on.

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Jorge Amil <jorgeamil AT hotmail DOT com> wrote:

> Hello,
> I´m not sure about it.
> Meaby,in the same logical partition, you must define X drives for TSM1 
and
> the others for TSM2.
> Where i work whe have two tsm servers but server 1 is the library 
manager
> of server2.
>
> Let´s wait for other colleagues answers.
>
> Jorge
>
> > Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 05:15:08 -0800
> > From: fmolero AT YAHOO DOT COM
> > Subject: [ADSM-L] TS3500 ALMS question..
> > To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> >
> > Hello colleagues,
> >
> > Is it possible to use drives and slots for two TSM Servers in a 
logical
> same partition in a TS3500 with ALMS feature ??
> >
> > Thanks
> > Fran
>
>