We are about to make that leap of faith. 

        We are upgrading our 46 3590 drives to 3592 drives. Part of the
work will be to go from a direct-attach of the drives to a SAN fabric.
It makes the whole project a little more complex and a little more
expensive, but we are hoping that it will position us better for the
future.

        Crossing my fingers that conversion will go as planned.

Ben
 

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Mike
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 6:33 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: Off-Topic: Question regarding IBM vs. EMC storage


On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Jurjen Oskam wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 03:29:11PM -0400, Thach, Kevin G wrote:
>
> > I know there are numerous people on this forum using EMC storage, 
> > and I'd appreciate it if a few of you wouldn't mind giving me your 
> > opinion
>
> For disk storage, we have an EMC Symmetrix in an Open 
> Systems-environment. The SAN consists of EMC-labeled Brocade-switches.

> Attached to the SAN are several AIX boxes and IBM xSeries. The AIX 
> boxes have rootvg on internal disks, the xSeries are completely 
> diskless.
>
> For tape storage, we have an IBM 3584 library, fibre-connected but not

> via the SAN: each drive has its own HBA in the AIX box.

This is the same tape configuration we're using. Have you thought about
moving the tape fiber to SAN and attaching from TSM that way?

Mike