It's a size thing .. We average 190TB per night for incremental, and
480TB on the weekends (db fulls) across 4 primary DC's.  We also have 4
fully populated STK sl8500 and two TS3500's for Offsite Copies (vaulted
in-house using fcip).  We have a team of 8 that manages it now.

It can be exciting and many times overwhelming, but many times long for
the simple days of 4 tsm servers and 2 libs.

Regards, 

Charles 


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Alex Paschal
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Wow.  Charles, do you mind if we grill you about your environment? Is it
simply size that pushes you to scale to that many VTLs and TSM
instances, or is it some other consideration?


On 7/10/2012 10:29 AM, Hart, Charles A wrote:
> The IBM one, the reason I said overhead and complexity
>
> 1) We have 40 VTL's for
> 2) 5120 Configured Vtape Drives
> 3) More than 10,000 TSM Tape Drive Paths
> 4) 100 TSM Instances that share all the above
>
> It would "seem" that if we used a VTL that has NFS we would still have
> 40 Devices but not the 15K objects to manage (tape Drives and paths)
>
> Regards,
>
> Charles
>
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> Chart2: what Vtl are you currently using and what does it cause a lot
of
> overhead and complexity?
>
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