Hi All,
We have two TSM servers and are in the middle of a migration from a older 6.3.4.0 server which is tied to a Dell 6030 tape library (Currently has two drives assigned) and a newer 7.1.3.0 server which also has two drives assigned to said tape library.
We are moving from tape to disk on the new server and have already migrated all of the data to some storage pools on our new device type filedisk. Because of this I wanted to move the two other tape drives back to the older TSM server to help with the export and migration of our tape based nodes to the new server and onto disk.
This is where I came into a few issues:
After moving the SAS cables for the tape drives from the new server to the old the old server stopped seeming to be able to work correctly with the tape library.
For example when I try a "move data (volnumber)" it trys to mount a tape. The library actually moves the tape and puts it in the drive. Then the process just sits there waiting for the tape to mount and eventually fails out. I have tried hard-resetting the tape library and the server and to no avail. Both the paths and drives seem to be online:
TSM>
q path
Source Name Source Type Destination Name Destination Type On-Line
TSM SERVER ML6030LB LIBRARY Yes
TSM SERVER TAPE0 DRIVE Yes
TSM SERVER TAPE1 DRIVE Yes
TSM>
q drive
Library Name Drive Name Device Type On-Line
ML6030LB TAPE0 LTO Yes
ML6030LB TAPE1 LTO Yes
On another note when I try to add one of the other tape drives that I have just moved over from the newer server I get "An I/O error has occurred" which seems odd.
Any advice or ideas would be appreicated.
Older server is RHEL5, newer server is Win2012R2
Also please let me know if I have posted this in the wrong location to be answered. Thanks.
We have two TSM servers and are in the middle of a migration from a older 6.3.4.0 server which is tied to a Dell 6030 tape library (Currently has two drives assigned) and a newer 7.1.3.0 server which also has two drives assigned to said tape library.
We are moving from tape to disk on the new server and have already migrated all of the data to some storage pools on our new device type filedisk. Because of this I wanted to move the two other tape drives back to the older TSM server to help with the export and migration of our tape based nodes to the new server and onto disk.
This is where I came into a few issues:
After moving the SAS cables for the tape drives from the new server to the old the old server stopped seeming to be able to work correctly with the tape library.
For example when I try a "move data (volnumber)" it trys to mount a tape. The library actually moves the tape and puts it in the drive. Then the process just sits there waiting for the tape to mount and eventually fails out. I have tried hard-resetting the tape library and the server and to no avail. Both the paths and drives seem to be online:
TSM>
q path
Source Name Source Type Destination Name Destination Type On-Line
TSM SERVER ML6030LB LIBRARY Yes
TSM SERVER TAPE0 DRIVE Yes
TSM SERVER TAPE1 DRIVE Yes
TSM>
q drive
Library Name Drive Name Device Type On-Line
ML6030LB TAPE0 LTO Yes
ML6030LB TAPE1 LTO Yes
On another note when I try to add one of the other tape drives that I have just moved over from the newer server I get "An I/O error has occurred" which seems odd.
Any advice or ideas would be appreicated.
Older server is RHEL5, newer server is Win2012R2
Also please let me know if I have posted this in the wrong location to be answered. Thanks.