Virginia - thanks again. One more question for the moment. Assume you employ
ADSM compression prior to sending over the network. What overheads have you
experienced on the client side (particularly in terms of processor
utilisation as a % of total available).
Alan Vandersee
Midrange Software Planning - Technology Planning & Management
Level 25, 201 Elizabeth St, SYDNEY
Ph: (02) 9396 8496 Fax: (02) 9396 8486
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Virginia Hysock [SMTP:vhysock AT CSC DOT COM]
> Sent: Saturday, February 27, 1999 1:20 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: MVS ADSM Server
>
> Alan,
>
> I have had an MVS ADSM server in operation since about 1996. I would
> be glad to discuss the details offline if you would like. Feel free to
> e-mail me at vhysock AT csc DOT com . To give you a few details - we
> are
> an
> OS/390 2.4 shop, using JES3. ADSM runs on one of four LPAR's here. Our
> server has recently been upgraded to 3.1.2.14 (and yes, that fixtest for
> the expiration problem does work well!). We currently have 300+ clients -
> HP-UX, AIX, NT, Netware, Solaris, Windows. The one thing I will tell you
> from my experience - getting 60 GB/hour throughput on a 100 Mbps FDDI is a
> daydream.
>
> Ginny
>
> ---------------------- Forwarded by Virginia L Hysock/HI/CSC on 02/26/99
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> To: Virginia L Hysock/HI/CSC@CSC
> cc:
> Subject:
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> planning an ADSM implementation with the ADSM server residing on MVS,
> however need to gain some understanding of MVS usage in order to plan and
> provision appropriate capacity.
> Initial implementation will be with 11 ADSM clients, with a maximum
> required
> throughput of 60GB per hour. Network infrastructure is being designed, but
> assume will most likely be FDDI (100Mbps).
> Would like to know if there are any implementations of ADSM using MVS as
> the
> server. If so, would like to understand details of ADSM implementation (#
> of
> servers, clients, network infrastructure etc), what is the volume of data
> being backed up (in worst hour), MVS resources (MIPS, memory, disk pools)
> being used. Would also be helpful if details of MVS environment were
> provided, such as operating system version and release, hardware model
> etc.
> Alan Vandersee
> Midrange Software Planning - Technology Planning & Management
> Level 25, 201 Elizabeth St, SYDNEY
> Ph: (02) 9396 8496 Fax: (02) 9396 8486
>
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