Instead of virtual volumes, I suggest using library sharing.
(Your node-server will have to have enough disk to have its own DB anyway.)

Virtual volumes have to reclaim by sending data over the network, twice.
Sharing the library is much faster, simpler & easier to manage than virtual 
volumes.
 

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Bernd Wiedmann
Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 7:13 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: enterprise setup


hi everyone,

we are planning to do some enterprise configuration.
Now, what I have in mind is something like this:

1 TSM-Master-Server, which acts as configuration manager,
  central event-logger, and administration-server. 5 drives
  in a storagetek library.
  maybe hot standby.
  
n instances of TSM-Server, which serve the nodes.
  but, this TSM-Server won't have any tape or disk-storage.
  because they send all data to the master-server via virtual volumes.
  
This configuration has the big advantage that the instances don't need drives,
or something like that.

So here are my questions:
Does anyone has such a environment?
Does anyone know any pitfalls?
Does that concept make sense to you?

thanks in advance

best regards
Bernd Wiedmann





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