Hi Steve,

I'm a bit out of your subject on TSM in WPARS but have you consired using the 
virtualisation features available on the Power Systems : NPIV to share FC 
cards, vSCSI to share boot disks via VIOS, IVE/HEA or SEA for network access..?

--
Best regards / Cordialement / مع تحياتي
Erwann SIMON

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From: Steve Harris <steve AT STEVENHARRIS DOT INFO>
Sender: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
Date:         Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:12:48 
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Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM in AIX WPARS

Hi All

I'm involved in a consolidation exercise of a TSM environment that has
"just growed" over the last 15 years, and features multiple TSM 5.5
servers running on AIX on various P4 and P5 hardware.  These are to be
moved, with as few changes as possible, to new P7 hardware, at a new
data centre.  I'm also under the pump to get this done because of the
contract ending with the old data centre.

Migration to TSM 6 would take too long and is outside my brief. Because
of the unplanned server sprawl, most of the servers use port 1500, and I
don't have time to visit all the clients to update them to use a
different port. Also, given that the new hardware is so much better than
the old, it seems a waste to have two disk and two tape HBA ports
dedicated to each server in its own LPAR. So, I've hit on the idea of a
reasonably large TSM LPAR with the instances running in WPARS inside it.

Is anyone running TSM 5 in WPARS?  I'm interested in any problems you
might have had, war stories, gotchas, and also any "yep works fine for
me" reports.


Many Thanks


Steve

Steven Harris
TSM Admin, Canberra Australia.