I'm rebuilding a fileserver and I want to use my IBM 3583 Ultrium tape library. It's fitted with one LTO3 drive and completely filled with tapes so there's 20something terabytes of uncompressed storage. I don't have a copy of or a valid license for Windows 2003 server but I do have a copy of 2000 server and it seems IBM supplied drivers for the library and drives for use under that OS so I just assumed there wouldn't be any issues.
Supposedly I can use Remote Storage to make the library look like a virtual disk with a smaller RAID acting as the physical location for network users (PC, mac and people using NFS) to store and retrieve their data. The drivers install fine and that I am aware of, ALL the needed drivers are installed. Remote Storage seems to understand what the drives and library are and I can perform tasks like preparing media, rearranging the media pools, running an inventory and checking the status of a device but when I try and setup a managed volume it will only let me select from the VS160 DLT drive that's fitted in one of the 5.25" bays. I can't seem to figure out how to make it work with the Ultrium setup. On IBM's end all I can seem to find is Tivoli which doesn't look like a substitute for Windows Remote Storage but more of just a system device manager.
My install also has the unofficial 2K service pack, the rollup pack and the server rollups applied.
Supposedly I can use Remote Storage to make the library look like a virtual disk with a smaller RAID acting as the physical location for network users (PC, mac and people using NFS) to store and retrieve their data. The drivers install fine and that I am aware of, ALL the needed drivers are installed. Remote Storage seems to understand what the drives and library are and I can perform tasks like preparing media, rearranging the media pools, running an inventory and checking the status of a device but when I try and setup a managed volume it will only let me select from the VS160 DLT drive that's fitted in one of the 5.25" bays. I can't seem to figure out how to make it work with the Ultrium setup. On IBM's end all I can seem to find is Tivoli which doesn't look like a substitute for Windows Remote Storage but more of just a system device manager.
My install also has the unofficial 2K service pack, the rollup pack and the server rollups applied.
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