From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Roger Deschner
>I keep hearing it said, that if you're going to buy a great big disk
>array for TSM, that it works better if you let TSM know it has disks
>(DEVCLASS=FILE), than if you lie and try to tell it they are virtual
>tapes.

The problem with this being, of course, that you get no compression of
data--the big advantage of VTL and the purpose of the VTL layer.

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Mark Stapleton (mark.s AT evolvingsol DOT com)
Senior TSM consultant