Does anybody have any comparisons on running TSM V6.3 on the AIX
platform versus Windows 2008 ? We have been running on AIX for
approximately 15 years and our company would like us to convert to
windows. Trying to give them a comparison in terms of hardware needed,
disaster recovery times, etc... 

Thanks.  

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A link farm? Maybe www.butterflysoftware.net?

[RC]




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You have to move off TSM 5 sooner or later.  Any reasonably sized TSM
installation takes too long to practically convert in place so you are
forced to install TSM 6 on a new server, start new backups and then
export/import the old data.  This is an ideal time to change platform in
the process.

Other than that take a look at www.butterflysoftware.com

Regards

Steve

Steven Harris
TSM Admin, Canberra Australia



On 17/11/2011 8:43 AM, Hans Christian Riksheim wrote:
> I am not of any help here but you say you are moving to Linux because
> it is cheaper.
>
> Our Power servers running TSM accounts for less than 3% of the yearly
> total cost for our backup infrastructure. Then we include licenses and
> man hours in addition to hardware and data center costs(floor space,
> power and cooling).
>
> Cutting off a little of those 3% is not an option for us if it means
> moving away from a rock solid platform. Even if Linux on Dell was
> handed to us free of charge we would stay on Power. But YMMV.
>
> Anyone else done the same calculation and found out what the cost of
> the physical servers amount to compared to total cost for the TSM
> infrastructure? Maybe you should.
>
> Hans Chr.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Dury, John C.<JDury AT duqlight DOT com> 
wrote:
>> Our current environment looks like this:
>> We have a production TSM server that all of our clients backup to 
throughout the day. This server has 2 SL500 tape libraries attached via 
fiber. One is local and the other at a remote site which is connected by

dark fiber. The backup data is sent to the remote SL500 library several 
times a day in an effort to keep them in sync.  The strategy is to bring

up the TSM DR server at the remote site and have it do backups and 
recovers from the SL500 at that site in case of a DR scenario.
>>
>> I've done a lot of reading in the past and some just recently on the 
possible ways to migrate from an AIX TSM server to a Linux TSM server. I

understand that in earlier versions (we are currently at 5.5.5.2) of the

TSM server it allowed you to backup the DB on one platform (AIX for 
instance) and restore on another platform (Linux for instance) and if
you 
were keeping the same library, it would just work but apparently that
was 
removed by IBM in the TSM server code to presumably prevent customers
from 
moving to less expensive hardware. (Gee, thanks IBM!<sigh>).
>> I posted several years ago about any possible ways to migrate the TSM

Server from AIX to Linux.
>> The feasible solutions were as follows:
>>
>> 1.       Build new linux server with access to same tape library and 
then export nodes from one server to the other and then change each node

as it's exported, to backup to the new TSM Server instead.  Then the old

data in the old server can be purged. A lengthy and time consuming
process 
depending on the amount of data in your tape library.
>>
>> 2.       Build a new TSM linux server and point all TSM clients to it

but keep the old TSM server around in case of restores for a specified 
period of time until it can be removed.
>>
>> There may have been more options but those seemed the most reasonable

given our environment. Our biggest problem with scenario 1 above is 
exporting the data that lives on the remote SL500 tape library would
take 
much longer as the connection to that tape library is slower than the 
local library.  I can probably get some of our SLAs adjusted to not have

to export all data and only the active data but that remains to be seen.
>>
>> My question. Has any of this changed with v6 TSM or has anyone come
up 
with a way to do this in a less painful and time consuming way? Hacking 
the DB so the other platform code doesn't block restoring an AIX TSM DB
on 
a Linux box? Anything?
>>
>> Thanks again and sorry to revisit all of this again. Just hoping 
something has changed in the last few years.
>> John
>>



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