>
> I really question whether IBM has any committment to ADSM/HSM as a
> strategic product.
> I have owned two licenses for the HSM component since last September,
> and have never been able to use them.
>
> By the time we got ADSM installed, I found out that the AIX servers that
> were our intended ADSM clients were all running AIX 4.1.4, and there was
> no HSM support.
>
> So I waited until HSM support became available for 4.1.4. But by the
> time that was available, we already had orders in to replace our
> stand-alone RS/6000's with an 8-node SP, which just arrived with AIX
> 4.2.
>
> And there is STILL no HSM support for AIX 4.2.
The nodes on our SP are sitting at 4.1.5, because a LOT of software is not
certified for 4.2. So, we could take advantage of the HSM. Maybe you could
backrev one node and use it to export HSM space...
Mark
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