Get out an envelope and a piece of paper. On the envelope write: "To my
successor: When you consider migrating your TSM server to a different
platform, open this envelope."

Write everything up to this point including this sentence on the piece
of paper. Put the paper in the envelope and put it in the top drawer of
your desk.

***

On a more serious note, I talked to a person moving a TSM server from
AIX to HP-UX but couldn't find any citation supporting or un-supporting
the practice. 

She did do some testing to make sure one system could read the other's
private tapes. This would seem to be one of the big hurdles.

The urban legend is that such a thing is not possible. I suspect the
legend is true.

[RC]

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Evans, Bill
Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2008 1:04 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Migrating servers

Hello,

TSM Server 5.5.0.3 running on AIX 5.3 ML6, clients are a mixed lot as
usual.

We are going to migrate this to a SUN Solaris Server, Solaris 5.10.

Primary client is solaris, ~80TB active data, ~300TB of inactive/archive
data.


Can anyone point me to a Redbook or the section in the Admin Guide to
help me understand what I am going to have to do?  So far, the Admin
Guide explains migrating, but, only to another system with the same O/S.


Thank you,
Bill Evans
Research Computing Support
FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER 


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