Those high end Windows boxes are priced similarly to equivalent (or better) AIX 
boxes.  Check the benchmarks before deciding.

Orville L. Lantto



From: Kauffman, Tom
Sent: Thu 2/26/2009 08:38
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Preferred TSM Platform


Yup.

It boils down to Wanda's statement: "I/O, I/O, it's all about I/O" --- Wanda 
Prather

If you can do the work with LTO-1 or -2 drives, or DLT-7000, or similar 
speed/capacity, then Windows will work. When you get into 
high-speed/high-capacity drives the Intel/AMD architecture comes unglued. A 
single LTO-4 drive will use ALL the I/O bandwith of a PCI or PCI-x bus, and a 
significant chunk of a PCIe(1) bus. The challenge becomes one of finding a 
suitable X86 server with multiple PCIe busses in the design.

IBM has the GX series I/O modules with two PCIe busses each for the P6 
architecture that allows for significant I/O bandwith expansion -- for a cost, 
of course.

Tom Kauffman
NIBCO, Inc


-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Kelly Lipp
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 4:14 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: Preferred TSM Platform

I love it when somebody quotes me!  Somebody is listening.

I had this discussion with one of our customers yesterday.  It really 
does/should boil down to the OS experience you have on hand.  Does the AIX 
platform have more capacity/performance than the best Windows platform?  I'm 
guessing it probably does.  But at what cost? And then more importantly: do 
either of the platforms have enough for you?  If both do, then pick the one 
that makes more sense based on your OS experience.  And remember: one can 
always divide and conquer.

Kelly Lipp
CTO
STORServer, Inc.
485-B Elkton Drive
Colorado Springs, CO 80907
719-266-8777 x7105
www.storserver.com


-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Allen S. Rout
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 1:52 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Preferred TSM Platform

>> On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:57:37 +0100, Henrik Vahlstedt <SHWL AT STATOILHYDRO 
>> DOT COM> said:

> 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."

<gollum> Achhhh!  It BURNS usss, nassssty windowsss.... </gollum>


- Allen S. Rout
- Prefers AIX for this. *koff* :)


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