I believe ACSLS was added in one of the level 5 releases; but I'm not
positive.

On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Alex Paschal wrote:

> Hi, Paul.
>
> TSM Shared libraries don't support ACSLS, just SCSI and 3494.  TSM ACS
> support is enough if you're going to dedicate drives to each machine.
> Otherwise you'll need EDT to share drives among servers.  I believe it's the
> same for SAN clients, but I'm not certain of that.
>
> Alex
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul van Dongen [mailto:paul AT VANGUARD-IT.COM DOT BR]
> Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 12:17 PM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Lan-free and ACSLS
>
>
> Hello list,
>
>     Sorry to bother you with this simple question, but I needed a quick
> response and thought some of you could have been through the same
> situation:
>
> We want to use TSM to do all of our backups. We have a STK 9310 library
> with 9940B drives. The goal is to move this library to a SAN
> environment, with a TSM server (on *NIX) controlling the library and a
> number of lan-free clients doing their backups to the 9940 drives.
> To accomplish this, is TSM's ACS support enough or is another solution
> (Gresham's EDT) needed?
>
>
> Thank you all in advance for your attention
>
>
> --
> Paul Gondim van Dongen
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