With you. We run 90+ clients and 700-800 gigs a day on a wintel box. We have
moved the large files servers of our AIX server to this wintel box, because
of performance.
-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: Tony Morgan [mailto:TONY.MORGAN AT FORTISBANK DOT COM]
Verzonden: woensdag 13 november 2002 17:55
Aan: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Onderwerp: Re: Server AIX vs NT
My "Tuppence" worth (Two pence GB is worth 3 US Cents),
We run quite happily on a wintel server, backing up 70+ clients and 200Gb
Overnight.
Just buy the biggest and faster box you can afford (Intel is so cheap
amyway!!!)
I know that it would be faster on Unix, but our primary skillset is NT, so
that would incur unreasonable costs and overhead. Sometimes you are best
sticking with what you know best.
Rgds
Tony Morgan
-----Original Message-----
From: Remco Post [mailto:r.post AT SARA DOT NL]
Sent: 13 November 2002 16:47
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: Server AIX vs NT
Hi,
We run TSM on AIX, quite heavily loaded (105GB db, 70% full), no
problems, moving our 200soemthing GB daily. I don't know of any PC
hardware that could handle our 15-something PCI adapters, so that might
be one issue. I have more faith in any Unix (including Linux) than in
Windows, especially in the security department, so there may be another
reason not to put you data on wintel.
For smaller environments, no HSM clients, wintel might be an acceptable
solution....
On maandag, november 11, 2002, at 07:23 , Whitlow, Don wrote:
>> From what we've seen, the difference between Wintel and RS6K/pSeries
> hardware has been the I/O thruput. In our experience, Wintel
> hardware/software just cannot push I/O through like our RS6K hardware
> running AIX. That may be in large part due to the fact that Win32 seems
> to
> be the limiting factor, so Linux on Intel may be ok, but we see
> generally at
> least 2x the I/O thruput on the AIX boxes vs. NT.
>
> Just my 2 cents...
>
> Don Whitlow
> Quad/Graphics, Inc.
> Manager - Enterprise Computing
> Don.Whitlow AT qg DOT com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ray Baughman [mailto:rbaughman AT NATIONALMACHINERY DOT COM]
> Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 10:46 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Server AIX vs NT
>
>
> Hello,
>
> We are looking to replace our TSM server hardware, we are currently
> running
> the TSM server on an IBM H50. The bean counters are saying that an NT
> server would be a lot cheaper than a UNIX server. They have decided it
> needs to be either an IBM UNIX server or an NT server. Has anyone had
> any
> experience with both NT and AIX servers, and if so what information do
> you
> have regarding performance, stability etc. with one over the other.
> Basically I've be told to either cost justify AIX or I'll end up on NT.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Ray Baughman
> Engineering Systems Administrator
> TSM Administrator
> National Machinery LLC
> Phone 419-443-2257
> Fax 419-443-2376
> Email rbaughman AT nationalmachinery DOT com
>
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