Been there.......tried to do that..........and would never put TSM on a
Windoze box.
Your environment is a big factor in platform decisions.
When we first discussed moving off AIX (yes, I would have loved to have
stayed on AIX but it was decided by higher-ups that AIX was not a
"strategic platform" and was told to move to an x86 platform), I tried to
put up a Windoze TSM server. I quickly found out that Windoze does not
play well in a SAN/shared device environment. Every time I tried to get
the Windoze server to use a tape drive, it would kill all tape processes
on the other TSM servers (it has the "Bill Gates"
persona.......MINE....ALL MINE.......I WANT TO OWN/CONTROL IT
ALL.......;--)). There were constant SAN issues.
So, we went to Linux and haven't looked back. Everything worked the first
time. No issues with sharing resources/SAN, etc. Granted, we overload our
servers (190GB DB with over 300M objects, 200+ nodes per server), but they
work and share resources just fine and a RedHat Linux license is cheap
($50/server)
Just my $.02 worth
"Strand, Neil B." <NBStrand AT LMUS.LEGGMASON DOT COM>
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Re: [ADSM-L] Preferred TSM Platform
If you are going to consider Solaris or HP for a TSM server, pause
and think when was the last time that these companies participated in a
lovefest? Trying to troubleshoot a driver, hba or performance issue
would be like asking a Nancy Pelosi to throw a birthday party for George
Bush.
Life is easier if you stick with AIX or Windows for a TSM server.
Cheers,
Neil Strand
Storage Engineer - Legg Mason
Baltimore, MD.
(410) 580-7491
Whatever you can do or believe you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic.
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Henrik Vahlstedt
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 9:58 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Preferred TSM Platform
Time to quote Kelly...
"So to me it's either AIX or Windows (yes, you can do a lot of TSM on
Windows once you get past the bigotry!). Choose whichever one you have
the most experience with."
//Henrik
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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Howard Coles
Sent: den 25 februari 2009 15:11
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Preferred TSM Platform
I would stick with AIX as the #1 Choice just because the combo of
hardware and OS are unbeatable for this kind of thing. I've seen
Windows Servers Choke on half the amounts of data I move every day, and
I have yet to even use more than 1% of my proc, or use the swap space on
my AIX box.
Second from that would be Linux (because I don't know Solaris).
I would avoid Windows.
See Ya'
Howard
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf
> Of Ian Smith
> Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 4:31 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: [ADSM-L] Preferred TSM Platform
>
> Hi
>
>
>
> I am sure this question has been asked many times, however with server
> and OS development what is the favored OS for TSM v5? I have always
> preferred AIX however never been keen on Solaris and am considering
> Windows instead.
>
>
>
> Will v6 be compatible with the Windows platform?
>
>
>
> Ian Smith
>
>
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