Thank you for the advice.

 --- Francisco Molero <fmolero AT YAHOO DOT COM> wrote: > Hi
Douglas,
> In Solaris you can get better performance if you use
> raw devices for DB, LOG and diskpools.
>
>
> > My organization recently migrated a 45GB TSM 5.1.5
> > database from an old AIX platform to a Sun V880
> > running Solaris 8. The migration of the database
> was
> > done by using "dsmserv restore db" as the export
> > failed on varios errors. A db audit was never
> > performed because of the downtime involved - days,
> > weeks, who knows?
> > The server has 4*900MHz Sparcs, 8GB RAM, one
> > functional Gb ethernet card, and 6*73 internal FC
> > disks. Externally, a JBOD was used, Sun's D2,
> > 12*36GB
> > SCSI-3 disks. It was all configured with Disksuite
> > in
> > this way. /, /usr, /opt were mirrored using two of
> > the
> > internal disks. The other disks were configued as
> > RAID
> > and had filesystems that contained primary db and
> > log
> > volumes as well as a storage pool for Domino. The
> > external array was also configured as RAID 5 and
> had
> > filesystems that would contain the db and log
> copies
> > as well as other storage pools -Backuppool, etc.
> > When the system came up, performance was
> incredibly
> > poor and it became apparent that the bottleneck
> was
> > the D2 array which had problems migrating and
> > backing
> > up simultaneously.
> > At that point or shortly thereafter, stgpool
> volumes
> > were spread between the internal disk and external
> > disk and the the db/log copies were deleted.
> > The current situation is that, after inspecting
> the
> > output from "q sessions", the client make contact
> > with
> > the server and then sits in queue for a very long
> > time. Once the actual backup/restore starts, it
> runs
> > like greased lightning, however. Incidentally,
> there
> > are over 1000 desktop clients runiing 95, 98 and
> XP.
> >
> > Any ideas, suggestions? Thank you...
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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