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TSM admins, it's decision time! You have run out of capacity (or you know that day is coming) in your tape library and are (or will be) deploying additional tape drives, media or maybe even an additional tape library to meet the demand. This needs to happen quickly because your Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are at risk and whether or not you know it, you are at a crossroads and have an important decision to make: do I take this opportunity to move to ‘LIBTYPE=EXTERNAL’ or continue to use â
March 20, 2012
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You've likely heard the expression "you get what you pay for" and this holds true for tape support in IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM). While TSM comes with built-in support for tape at no additional cost you aren't getting a whole lot of functionality either. Here's how it shakes out...
What you get out of the box
TSM provides the following basic support for all tape libraries out of the box:
Tape library sharing (media and drives)
Support for a single device path to each
January 26, 2012
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Thin provisioning is key to enabling the efficient use of tape. Yes, you read right. TAPE!
Thin provisioning is usually associated with disk and it has become a key feature to enable the efficient use of disk systems. Every major disk system vendor offers some form of thin provisioning and thin provisioning has made its way into virtualization software like VMware. But the application of thin provisioning to the tape world is largely absent (with the notable exception of the fact that we, at
January 11, 2012
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