Administrator's Guide


Devices Supported by Tivoli Storage Manager

TSM supports a wide range of devices:

Disk devices
TSM supports any disk storage device supported by the operating system.

Tape devices
See http://www.tivoli.com/tsm for the tape drives supported by TSM.

See http://www.tivoli.com/tsm for the libraries supported by TSM, either through the TSM device driver or the IBM device driver (Atape) that ships with certain IBM tape drives.

Optical devices
See http://www.tivoli.com/tsm for the optical drives and libraries supported by TSM.

Other devices
TSM may be able to use devices that are supported by an AIX device driver. These devices are defined to TSM using the device type of GENERICTAPE.

The devices that TSM supports may change. For current information about supported devices:


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