Hi Dave,

Although we are not running two servers yet, I
can 
think of a few reasons why you would like to have

more than one ADSM backup server.
On the database side of things, the ADSM database

can grow quickly and eventually become a hassle
to 
manage - Making backups of the DB, and the
running
of the expiration process that becomes time
consuming.
In some shops expiring old files becomes almost a
24 hour
process.

Also you can run out of resources - if you're
running on 
MVS you will know that ADSM is not a light user
of 
your CPU. In most shops ADSM becomes the number 1
CPU user.

From a network point of view one server becomes
the 
entry point for all your backup data and the
network interface
to your system becomes the bottleneck.

I'm sure there could be other reasons as well,
but from 
my experience with ADSM I can see the above as
the 
most obvious reasons why you would want more than

one backup server.

Regards
Christo Heuër
ABSA Group 
Johannesburg
South Africa
E-Mail: christoh AT absa.co DOT za

> 
> Dear ADSMers,
> 
>         This is intended for those that have
multiple ADSM servers.  I would
> like to find out what criteria was used to
ascertain the need for
> additional servers and what gain is there in
having multiple servers?  I
> am also not talking about remote ADSM servers,
but one or more in a
> single location.  I thank anyone for any input
that I can get.
> 
> 
> Dave Larimer
> Dave_Larimer AT kne DOT com
> >KNEnergy, Inc.