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Re: ADSM Server on Solaris

1998-11-11 09:00:11
Subject: Re: ADSM Server on Solaris
From: Fredrik Lundholm <exce7 AT CE.CHALMERS DOT SE>
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 15:00:11 +0100
Hello,

> To save ADSM marketing too much digging around, is there any chance those of
> you running your ADSM servers on Solaris could let me have some company
> names to get an idea of how popular this choice of server platform is? This

Well I just ordered ADSM for Solaris here and the Try-out version I've tried
seems to work pretty OK (v. 3.1.2).
(Though IBM wants four weeks!! to ship the CD)

I've noticed some glitches with the archive-client (it refuses to be tunneled
through ssh, it sometimes hangs etc (solaris-2.6)).
I also tried the NT-client with mixed success, on one machine we first
installed the swedish language which crashed, on subsequent de/re-installs of
the english version it still used the swedish module which crashed.
(we haven't been able to try ADSM on this NT4.0 machine )
On a more vanilla NT4-machine where we didn't ever try the swedish module
it worked kind of like the solaris version, if you stress the client
it crashes.
On one solaris 2.5 file-server, I had to use the version 2 client as no
version 3 client exists for 2.5, so if you still use a lot of 2.5 or less
machines think twice about ADSM. (the version 2 client is the most
stable of the three I've tried during testing but looks different
than the v3.)
(all clients used the latest avaliable versions as of four weeks ago)

I can't wait for the html-client which would add great remote and perhaps
a more stable interface for the client part. The server module on solaris
is either html or command-line, no native server config program is available.
(and in my limited testing decently stable)

Too bad that the html-client backup module only will work on solaris 2.6 and
not on 2.5.1 which is what most clients here are at the moment.

At Chalmers we are deploying ~10 large ADSM servers on solaris.
We desperately need the DFS-client ported over to solaris though, as we
generally don't have AIX machines and are relying on DFS in the future.

Another thing is that I still haven't grasped is how to let each user
restore his own files on the fileserver.. It seems that IBM has a seriously
screwed picture on how to differentiate between client machines and users. :)

> they are the first 'victims' ;-). I'd be interested if there are any known
> glitches with using Solaris servers.

The above is not an answer to your question as it mostly deals with
client-problems which you seem to understand thoroughly..
The 3.1.2 server I've tried on an E3500 with ADIC VLS-SDX 11 tape AIT robot
running Solaris 2.6 seems resonable, (I haven't seen any other ADSM server
port so I can't really comment on any difference).
Well ADSM doesn't support the VLS-SDX robot so I had to patch the ADSM
driver with an editor to fool it into thinking it was an ADIC VLS-4MM.

Short: we are pretty happy with ADSM on solaris, and our organization
are deploying a 'large' number of similar setups in the near future.

> Thanks for any help in advance.
> Regards
> Alan

/wfr/
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Fredrik Lundholm
Fredrik Lundholm
exce7 AT ce.chalmers DOT se
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