Hi Andy
Thanks for the response.
The database is 125GB and 95% used. The conversion would need 25 hours by
itself, plus time to drain diskpools, run DB backups, etc etc. That would
mean a whole weekend outage and I'm too chicken to go there :) "failed"
changes are a hot button with management so I don't want to have to go
through the rigmarole of getting such an extended outage approved only to
have it not succeed and have to ask again.
Also Markus thanks for the report, I did reply but it bounced as I sent it
from the wrong email account,
The TS3500s are already shared multiple ways, and number of drives will be
an issue. Dynamic movement of drives between logical libraries has not
been as convenient as I had hoped so that us not really an option. Of
course there is never enough money ....
Regards
Steve.
On 11 October 2013 05:42, Huebner, Andy <andy.huebner AT alcon DOT com> wrote:
> When we were upgrading our large 11 year old DBs from 5.4 to 6.2, we used
> a 6.2 library manager for about a month with no issues.
>
> As a side curiosity question, how big is too large, my biggest 5.4 was a
> little of 250GB and our two 11 year old DBs were over 200GB. No issues
> upgrading.
>
> Andy Huebner
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf
> Of
> Steven Harris
> Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2013 7:04 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: [ADSM-L] Library Manager/Client compatibility problem
>
> Hi all
>
> I've painted myself into a corner.
>
> I have a customer with TSM V5.5.6 and V6.2.4 instances hosted on AIX.
>
> The original plan was to move the clients one at a time off V5 and onto v6.
> The V5 database is too big to convert, and as the instance is over 10
> years old I fully expect it to have database issues that may make a
> conversion difficult.
>
> The customer sees this as essentially wasted work and wants me to
> implement TSM for VE as quickly as possible since most of those V5 clients
> are (now) virtualized Windows and Linux boxes.
>
> There are dual sites with TS3500s and TSS1120/1140 drives, with a library
> manager on each. I'd be mad to install anything other than TSM for VE at
> 6.4, so I'll need the TSM for VE instance to be 6.3.4. This forces the
> library manager to also be 6.3.4, but library manager/library client is
> only supported at n+1, so the V5 library client is not supported with the
> 6.3.4 library manager.
>
> It really would be a better option to go straight to TSM for VE if that
> can be done.
>
> Is anyone out there successfully running V5 lib client against V6.3 lib
> manager? Anyone got horror stories to tell?
>
> Thanks
>
> Steve
>
> Steven Harris
> TSM Admin
> Canberra Australia
>
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