This sounds like a design question.
Based on what you described, if you currently have free cycles and
eventually you will do it later on, if you do the work now, you have less
work later on. So that makes sense to me.

When you do partition the library, you also have to assign tape drive(s)
and allocate # of slots.  These resources won't be in use(idle) .  Since
projection of data usage and need can change over night, I would  wait
until the need arises.

Sung Y. Lee

"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 03/17/2006
07:18:08 AM:

> We are about ready to setup a 3584 library for the first time.
>
> The 3584 will be shared between 3 tsm instances (2 production instances
and
> a library mgr instance) using tsm library sharing.  At this time we do
not
> need any logical libraries, but there are several projects coming that
may
> make logical libraries desirable (hsm for Windows, getting rid Omniback
by
> moving clients to TSM, some archiving applications).
>
> Given the possibility of using logical libraries in the future, does it
> make sense to partition the 3584 into a single logical library now, or,
is
> it better to wait until the need arises?
>
> Thanks
>
> Rick
>
>
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