Hi,

From all I heard and read, these machines are excellent, with good cpu and
I/O. There are good numbers from www.tpc.org .

Their big problem is operational system. Most of the times Win NT makes a
big mess handling big resources easier than unixes, and also brings up
problems that wouldn't happen in Unix. Service is not so good, comparing
to a general overview of most unix flavors.

I am looking forward to the results of Monterey project
(http://www.ibm.com/servers/monterey/) that could be a good enterprise
solution.

The software differences for ADSM will be minimum, though.

good luck !

Rodrigo

>I'm moving my ADSM server from a RS/6000 590 single processor system to a
>Netfinity server because we are changing from STK 4490 to STK 9840 (eagle)
>tapes.
>I'm interested in comments and/or recommendations reguarding the Netfinity
>5500 M20 and the 7000 models. If you have pushed one of these servers to
>the max, how much data is handled on a daily basis. If you have both syste
>how does the performance compare.