Re: 3573-L2U, switching from 1 full height drive to 2 half height drives.

[Kirk Goins <kirkgoins@xxxxxxxxx>]

The last time I looked, There was some limits on the number of slots that
could be assigned to each library. Pretty sure 50/50 split left/right
magazine is fine. I had a client that wanted to split it like 17 slots and 5
slots ( I don't remember the exact split ) and the library wouldn't let him.
IBM Support confirmed that the drive wasn't that flexible.


On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 6:42 AM, <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Opened a pmr and IBM confirmed it for me.  Yes, I can swap out the full
> height drive for two half height drives on the 3573-L2U and each drive
> could then be hooked up to separate lpar's.  Then I do some configuration
> on the library itself to assign the various magazine slots to the various
> drives.
>
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> Rob Berendt
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> From:   rob@xxxxxxxxx
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> Date:   04/26/2011 08:18 AM
> Subject:        Re: 3573-L2U,   switching from 1 full height drive to 2
> half height drives.
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> Any confirmation, please?
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> Rob Berendt
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> From:   rob@xxxxxxxxx
> To:     midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date:   04/25/2011 09:38 AM
> Subject:        3573-L2U, switching from 1 full height drive to 2 half
> height drives.
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> We will be changing our 3573-L2U.  We have a proposal from our BP to
> replace the one 8043 full height Ultrium 3 LVD SCSI drive with two 8046
> half height Ultrium 3 LVD SCSI drives.
> We want to attach each drive to a different lpar.  We are under the
> impression that one drive will get the right magazine and the other will
> get the left magazine.
>
> So, we're correct in thinking that we can run a cable from a 571A card,
> associated with a 2844 card, on one lpar to one drive and a different 571A
>
>
> card associated with a different 2844 card on a different lpar to the
> other drive.  And both can be running at the same time.  Right?  These
> will be configured as media libraries and the backup software will be
> BRMS.
>
>
> Rob Berendt
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