Keith,

NT supports Named Pipes as a communication option between an NT TSM
server and a local TSM client.

Steffan

PS. Since NT is more or less inherantly instable you have to make it
stable by only installing the least S/W that you can to reduce conflicts
and memory leaks.  Microsoft won't say that but that's basically what it
means when your product can't take advantage of the capability of the
underlying hardware to operate multiple processes.


Keith Nelson wrote:
>
> Frederic,
>
> Thanks for your response. It appears that I didn't paint a very clear
> picture in my original posting. I'd like to share more and see if anyone out
> there has additional feedback.
>
> > Exchange being the product it is, I would not dream of putting something
> > else on the same server... Even Microsoft does not recommend installing
> > other products such as SQL, Site server etc on the same server as
> > Exchange...
> >
>
> I agree that NT is not the most robust OS for hosting multiple applications
> but given the current architecture of ADSM, we are left with little choice
> given the requirements we're faced with. I realize that performance and
> stability of the OS are real issues, do you know of any specific reasons why
> Microsoft does not recommend hosting other applications on the same NT
> server?
>
> > Using the Connect Agent on the same server with both Exchange and
> > ADSM will
> > still send data through the Network... ADSM is a Client-Server
> > product... It
> > uses IP to route data... (I did not try IP address 127.0.0.1...(local
> > loopback) might this work?))
> >
>
> Yeah, it would be nice if the NT client support something like a SHAREDMEM
> option, but I don't think it does. Our goal isn't so much to bypass the IP
> stack (although that would be nice) as it is to deliver tape pooling and
> dynamic allocation across Fibre with multiple ADSM servers of various
> flavors and not move data across the LAN.  Any thoughts?
>
> > ADSM is the heart of your backup strategy... it worth the investment of a
> > dedicated server...
> >
>
> I agree but that won't help up to meet our customer's acceptance criteria.
>
> Regards,
>
> Keith
>
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