Crazy project time...........

I have been asked to research the
feasability/probability/scaleability/sizing of TSM to possibly handle
backing up thousands (actually close to 20,000 or more) desktops!

Anybody have experience doing very, very large scale backups of so many
nodes?   Don't expect much in storage occupancy since we would exclude
things like MP3, etc.  It would just be the ##### of files/database size
(sounds like this would have to wait for V6 since DB2 should scale much
better).

Does anyone run their TSM servers, open?   Trying to
administer/register/monitor this many clients would be a nightmare.

They are talking about budgeting close to $1M, which would include more
bodies as well as the equipment/software!