We are starting to examine the idea of replacing our aging 3494 (installed
1995) due to difficulty in getting parts and having more frequent outages
due to robot issues.

Since we have 17-TS1130 drives, the natural transition would be to a
TS3500/3584.

If we go down this route, one issue might be the floorspace/placement,
 which might require a weekend eject-push-pull-reload.

Never having dealt with any tape library other than the 3494, I am trying
to collect as much info as I can on doing a swap-out.

Is it as simple as defining the new library, moving the drives/paths to it,
 changing the devclass to point to the new library, checkin everything
(scratch/private)??  Am I missing anything?

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*Zoltan Forray*
TSM Software & Hardware Administrator
Virginia Commonwealth University
UCC/Office of Technology Services
zforray AT vcu DOT edu - 804-828-4807
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