Hello everyone!

A little background of our new environment would be 2 TSM servers, 1
development and 1 production, are AIX 5.2 at the TSM 5.2.2.5 level.  They
will be attached, through a McData 6064 director, to an STK SL8500 library
with 18 LTO2 tape drives.

I am not sure what device drivers to use for our environment.  I was
looking at the TSM Implementation Guide on pg. 89 and it stated that if we
use LTO drives we should use the IBMTape device driver instead of TSM's
device driver.  Is this correct?  Also, when I used the link from that site
it didn't exist, but if I used  ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/devdrvr

then it worked and I found the links to the device drivers for the AIX TSM
servers would be ATape device drivers and the Solaris LAN-free client
servers would be IBMTape device drivers.

Also,  with our configuration and 2 TSM servers using Gresham EDT and
ACSLS7.1, what type of library do I define in TSM?  I have defined an
external library, but now I'm wondering if I need an automated library
along with a shared library defined  with our production TSM server being
the primary library manager?  We will be sharing all 18 drives and the tape
pool.  As far as I know the scratch tape pool is defined within ACSLS.  For
the definition of the automated library it states that this is for SCSI
libraries only, which ours is fibre.  My thoughts on this are that I would
define the external library (with Lan-free capabilities) and then define a
shared library, but you don't give the master library the same name as the
shared library.  I guess I'm just a little confused on how this works and
will be set up in our environment.  Any suggestions would be appreciated!
Thanks!


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Joni Moyer
Highmark
Storage Systems
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