If I were going to be in the x86 family, I would move into the larger platforms
with more processors and more PCI-E slots. So the HP DL580 I think would be
your best bet. That will reduce the 5x cost benefit somewhat but provide you
with more flexibility. Consider the IBM x3850 M2 server. These are great
boxes and IBM will continue to love and support you. And perhaps a bit cheaper
than HP. Similar to my comment about Windows vs. Unix below, if you have a ton
of HP stuff in your site now, go with HP.
Linux or Windows then. Hmmm. I'm not a Linux guy so I would choose windows.
If most of your clients are windows and most of your internal IT knowledge is
Windows, stay Windows. If you have the Linux expertise, then use that. Won't
make much difference to TSM (I know, I know, Windows for I/O sucks and all
that, which BTW is contrary to what I know and believe...).
You can probably buy two x86 and split the load and still save money over the
mongo AIX box. I'd rather do that.
Kelly Lipp
CTO
STORServer, Inc.
485-B Elkton Drive
Colorado Springs, CO 80907
719-266-8777 x7105
www.storserver.com
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Sam Sheppard
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 11:51 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Server Platform Upgrade
We are currently running 3 TSM servers at Version 5.5, two on z/OS and
the third on a Solaris 10 box. We have been tasked to combine these
into one.
The current Solaris system is on a Sun V240 w/8GB memory:
Around 400 clients (combined) including a 3TB Exchange system, and a
fairly large SAP implemtation in development on MS SQL Server,
several Oracle boxes, and a large number of Windows servers.
Total database size (Solaris) is around 80GB, expiration runs about
two hours. z/OS databases total 50GB.
8 TS1120 tape drives in a 3494 ATL.
1.2TB array for storage pools and database on the Solaris server
which we are currently trying to separate.
Total daily backup volume is around 1TB with additional weekly
backups of 9TB.
I am the TSM guy and the z/OS systems programmer and as such don't
really have a feel for hardware sizing or configuration on the Unix side
of things and so have to rely on our Unix guys. I suggested that AIX
would be the preferred platform for this implementation with another
Solaris box having the advantage of not requiring converting the exist-
ing one. They came up with the following options with their favorite
being the x86(HP) with Linux because it is much cheaper and they claim
would be more powerful. The AIX and Sun configurations are similar in
price at around 5 times the x86.
Thought, comments, considerations? What are people using for disk
storage pools and would the internal drives on these boxes be adequate?
I'm also in the process of freeing one array on our ESS800 (Shark) for
fiber connection to this configuration.
Here are the proposed options:
IBM Power 550 Express HP DL380 G5
Up to 8 cores and 256GB RAM Up to 8 cores and 64GB RAM
Six 300GB internal SAS 15k drives Eight 146GB internal SAS 15k drives
Three PCIe and two PCI-X slots Four PCIe slots
Dual port 10 GB Ethernet card
4 GB fiber channel cards - x2
Thanks
Sam Sheppard
San Diego Data Processing Corp.
(858)-581-9668
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