Hi Zoltan!
I'm not an expert, but is the x86 bus architecture not a bottleneck for high
volume high performance I/O?
Kindest regards,
Eric van Loon
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines


-----Original Message-----
From: Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU [mailto:zforray AT VCU DOT EDU]
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 17:16
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: TSM server on Linux w/3494-3590


We are investigating the issue of moving TSM off AIX to a Linux system,
purely due to the cost of AIX hardware (lets face it....when it costs me
$5000 for a drawer of used SSA drives just to get me 130GB of raided disk
when I can get complete multi-processor x86 boxes with 300GB of raided
disk for the same cost, you have to investigate !)


The only issue is the fiber-channel/SAN connectivity to the shared 3494
ATL (primarily used by our z/OS systems) using 3590 E1A drives.

Can this be accomplished with an x86 box ?

How many folks are using the fairly new Linux version of TSM ?   How is it
running ?    Issues ?


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