Hi. Just one suggestion : I've seen so many people complaining about their
StorageTek libraries on this list that I would suggest you to see for
another options. Additional Magstar drives, for instance ...

good luck !

>Hello,
>I need some input on a ADSM upgrade project. Current environment is
>AIX 7026/H50,4.2.1.0, ADSM 3.1.2.1, Magstar MP L12, 45GB SSA disk
>pool. Clients are Solaris, Novell, NT servers. We backup 17 servers,
>12GB incrementals nightly in current environment.
>We need to backup 60 servers, 45GB incrementals in a 8 hour window
>nightly. Estimated capacity is a 7TB tape library and 320GB disk pool
>(migration and archiving).
>I have propose to management the StorageTek 9740 using 9840 drives
>(4), two ultra-wide SCSI cards and Clariion fibre channel 5300, 128MB
>Cache.
>Question Can anybody give me a compelling reason to rethink my
>strategy.
>As always thanks in advance.