Any success stories out there for using large amounts of
serial-access disk with TSM?

At 06:19 PM 11/29/2005, you wrote:

Richard,

I share your pain.

We have an EMC Clariion CX500 SAN.  We have found that AIX in general, and
TSM in particular, can just "hose" the sucker.

> I have about 6TB of san disk space used for nightly backups and the
> management of it is just a pain.

> I am curious what kind of problems you are running into.  At the TSM
> Symposium at Oxford this year, IBM indicated that they were going to
> further develop the serial access disk support in TSM.  And, TSM 5.3
> just added the ability for a SAD devclass to span multiple
> filesystems.  After hearing this, we have been leaning towards
> investing in inexpensive disk managed by TSM rather than buying a VTL
> appliance.  I'm interested in other's comments about where,
> specifically, they are having problems managing SAD directly by TSM.

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