In short no.  Sanergy is what allows you to share the filesystem
amongst multiple servers.  GPFS is a an alternative to SANergy that
also provides the file and block locking necessary to share a physical
device among multiple hosts.

I may be wrong, but I believe that the only two supported LAN free
protocols are GPFS and SANergy.  If TSM supported CIFS or NFS shares
as stgpools it might be able to do something similar with a filer, but
I'm pretty confident that is not supported.  You definitely cannot do
it with iSCSI, because that is a block device, not a file share.

Hope this helps.  I have not done a SANergy install in 4 years, so
things may have changed.

Gary
Itrus Technologies

On May 5, 2010, at 5:30 PM, WHEDA TSM wrote:

Hello... we will be implementing an iSCSI SAN in the near future.
The TSM
server needs more disk storage pool space.  I want to build new
storage
pools (FILE type, but perhaps also DISK type) on SAN storage.  I don't
need SANergy for this... correct?

Some of the TSM clients that will reside on the SAN would benefit from
LAN-free backups.  All TSM clients and the TSM server are Windows
2003 /
2008, we have no other client platforms.

Without using SANergy or GPFS, can I create a FILE type storage pool
on
SAN storage and define a shared FILE type library so that the TSM
server
and the TSM SAN storage agents can both write to the pool?

Thanks... Ken