I received this information from a StorageTek engineer.  My primary
question to them was how to size it to ensure that I could drive the number
of tape drives we were configuring and get the top performance possible.

I was being lazy and didn't have time to gather information on 500 servers
to use the Tivoli planning tool.  I figured that they are installing these
systems all over the place, there has to be some ballpark numbers on what
installations are being set up as and what configurations have worked the
best.

I did have Tivoli size a smaller site I have and their recommendations came
out the same as using this process.

Have a good day!

Brenda Collins
ING - Americas Infrastructure Services
(612) 342-3839  (Phone)
(
Brenda.Collins AT us.ing DOT com



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I have never seen this rule of thumb for sizing a TSM servers CPU.
Where did you find this rule of thumb?


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Joshua S. Bassi
Joshua S. Bassi
Sr. Solutions Architect @ rs-unix.com
IBM Certified - AIX/HACMP, SAN, Shark
Tivoli Certified Consultant- ADSM/TSM
Cell (415) 215-0326