Pierre,
Many thanks for your valuable help : I tried to open a call by IBM Switzerland
and they could not provide me half of the information you gave me ... Seems
that this kind of operation is not that usual here !
Regarding what you asked in point 1 : yes, no other way to do, as the library
has to be completely isolated from any other TSM server, but also because it
will be used for non-TSM applications ...
Yet, another question if you don't mind : If I keep the same drives layout in
the new logical libraries, than the one previously defined for the partitioned
library, will it be necessary to redefine the existing drives paths on TSM
servers ? I don't think so, as the real drive ID's are anyway "hidden" by the
library, but I just wanted to make this sure ...
Apart from this, your explanations are crystal clear and will be of much help :
thanks again !
Best regards.
A. Brion
P.S : yes I do speak French : I'm one of the happy few french guys crossing the
Swiss border on a daily basis to go to work ;-)
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
CAYE PIERRE
Sent: jeudi 12 juin 2008 17:44
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: ALMS activation on productive shared TS3500 library
Hi,
Do you speak french ?
May I make some suggestion...
I work with a huge library, TS3500, with 7 virtual libraries (ALMS) defined...
1. Do you really need to partition the library ?
A library manager is a good and scalable solution...
2. Traditionnal partitioning (ie physical partitioning) and ALMS (virtual
libraries) are exclusive solution.
You can't mixt the two solutions.
I mean, if you activate ALMS, you should loose all physical partitioning
Activating ALMS mean a complete change of strategy regarding how you use your
3584
To activate ALMS, which is a very nice "virtual libraries" solution... :-)
A) note all tape label for each actual partition
B) activate ALMS
B.1) create two virtual library, corresponding to the old partitions
allocate drives to each library
connect and define all tape on server side
B.2) allocate each tape to each corresponding virtual library
B.3) launch audit libr on each tsm server
C) create the third virtual library
D) Enjoy it
You will find all informations on IBM Infocenter :
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ts3500tl/v1r0/index.jsp
Pierre
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] De la part
> de PAC Brion Arnaud Envoyé : jeudi 12 juin 2008 15:54 À :
> ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU Objet : [ADSM-L] ALMS activation on productive
> shared TS3500 library
>
> Hi All,
>
> A probably trivial question, but I'm unable to find necessary
> information in the books ...
>
> Our TSM setup is actually made of a TS3500 library equipped with 15
> LT03 drives and an expansion frame, the whole being shared between 2
> TSM servers, thru the mean of "standard"
> library sharing (contiguous drive and slots for each logical library).
>
> So far, our logical libraries are looking like:
>
> - 1st partition : 7 tape drives (frame 1 row 1-7) and slots
> 1025 -1375
> - 2nd partition : 8 tape drives (frame 1 rows 8-12, frame 2 rows 1-3)
> and slots 1376-1707
>
> Note that the 3 last drives (frame 2 rows 1-3) where recently added,
> and are so far not used by any TSM server ...
>
> What we intend to do is to activate ALMS to create a 3rd partition
> which should be made of 3 drives (the 3 ones which are still not
> attributed) + approx. 50 tape slots, and to use that one for a new TSM
> server.
>
> My questions are :
>
> - what are the possible issues (if any) that I could face after having
> activated ALMS and created the 3rd partition ?
> - Is there any chance that our productive TSM servers could loose
> track of the already in use volumes, or of their drives ?
> - Will my actual partitioning still exist after ALMS activation ...
>
> Well, in some words : what shall I care about, before activating ALMS
> on an already partitioned and productive library ?
>
> Hopefully someone already went thru this and will give me some hints !
>
> Thanks in advance ...
>
> Cheers.
>
> Arnaud
>
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