How about the performance in WPAR? 


Regards,

Rajesh 


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I don't think there are any major issues, but if you need access to tape
drives you must have physical HBA's in each WPAR if you want to run an
officially supported configuration. Virtual HBA's work, but are not
officially supported, so if you run into any issues you might be on your
own.

On 24 jan. 2012, at 23:12, Steve Harris wrote:

> 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.

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