Determining Your Tape Hardware Use

The Usage Report shows the maximum number of drives used concurrently over the sample period for your tape and cartridge subsystems. Currently, 85 drives must be available to support peak tape activity. Later, you can use this report to reduce these configurations, based on tape mount management implementation results.

Table 1 displays an example of a Usage Report that provides a summary of tape mounts.

Table 1. Maximum Tape Mounts: 18 Day Summary Report
Maximum Tape Mounts: 18 Day Summary Report
	HR 00	01	02	03	04	05	…	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	MAX	TOT MNTS
HR MAX	49	64	48	54	43	23	…	19	49	85	65	5	50	72	85	6356