[ADSM-L] SV: Library manager on Intel VM

Hi Thomas,
That is correct, you can run the Library manager server on a different 
platform. 
I think you will have problem to run TSM under VMware. Probably much easier in 
XEN because you can give direct access to hardware in XEN.
To get VMware to get direct access via SAN to your library is possible but not 
the best. I suggest that you buy a really cheap server with a HBA and then 
install Linux or Windows on that, then can you run Library management without 
any issue and also supported by IBM.

Best Regards
Christian Svensson

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E-mail: Christian.Svensson AT cristie DOT se
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My employer is planning to migrate our computing infrastructure
to a pair of new data centers, each with a Version 6 TSM server
running under mainframe Linux, each writing copy pool volumes on
tape drives at the other site, and each with a library manager
instance of TSM to control sharing of tape drives and volumes
between local and remote TSM servers.

The original plan was to develop both new data centers
concurrently. In order to spread out the spending, a recent
change in plans calls for a transitional stage with one of the
new data centers writing copy pool volumes to our current data
center, which has a TSM 5.4 server under mainframe Linux.

Adding a mainframe library manager instance to the current data
center is problematic. The library manager will need to be at
Version 6, because the new data center will have a Version 6
server and a library manager client cannot be at a higher level
than the library manager. It is nearly impossible to have two
different levels of TSM server code coexist on the same Linux
image. We do not have zVM, and carving another LPAR out of our
aging and fairly small mainframe is not an appealing prospect.

Am I correct in understanding that a library manager can run
on a different platform than its clients? Would there be any
problem with setting up a Version 6 library manager under
x86 Linux running in a virtual machine? We already have a
sizable x86 virtualization infrastructure. The tape library
at the current data center is an IBM 3494 that receives mount
and dismount requests via Ethernet.