Do you run your Linux TSM servers on pseries (power4 or power5) or on intel 
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Lehmann, Stefan
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 2:52 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: TSM and Linux

Hello Mark,

we are currently using both - Linux and AIX as TSM-Server Platform 
(5.3.4.2) . There is no difference in stability,
both are running well.

But handling disk storage (eg database volumes or diskpool volumes) 
running with aix is a lot easier.
LVM coming with AIX is quite  easier to  handle. But if you have  Linux 
Guys with great skills on
this, I see no problem with Linux.

Next is the problem with tape drivers - we have a 3 tsm servers running 
on SLES8 (SuSE/Novell)
and an IBM4560SLX Library, now we have to upgrade to SLES10 and IBM 
can´t tell us
if there is!! a driver or existing drivers would work .. Now we have to 
test this environment @IBM.
This a problem we´ve never seen on AIX and our 3584 library.

regards

Stefan

Mark Scott schrieb:
> Morning all
>
>                 Does anyone have any experiences good or bad running
> Linux as a TSM Server? We are a reasonable size environment currently
> running AIX as our server and Linux/Windows and Aix clients. 
>
>             The question has been asked for various reasons to change
> processors and flavour.
>
>  
>
> All feed back would be appreciated.
>
>  
>
> Regards Mark 
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>  
>
> Mark Scott
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