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Re: ADSM Bottleneck

1999-08-21 10:57:31
Subject: Re: ADSM Bottleneck
From: Joshua Bassi <jbassi AT GLORYWORKS DOT COM>
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 07:57:31 -0700
Seth,

Last week at the International Storage Systems Symposium I attend a
session entitled "Optimizing ADSM & Windows NT for Performance and
Operation" presented by a representative from IBM ADSM Advanced
Technical Support who specializes in ADSM on NT.  During his
presentation he talked extensively about ADSM on UP versus SMP NT
servers.  He indicated that today, the ADSM server on NT can only
utilize one CPU.  This was big news to me.

That means adding 2 or more CPUs to your NT ADSM server will provide
minimal ROI.  Yes, NT's system processes, networking, and even running a
backup of the ADSM server itself would receive a boost from additional
processor(s), but you wouldn't receive much of a performance boost on
network backups.

Has anybody else found this to be true?  It was a big shock to me
personally.


Joshua S. Bassi
Storage Management Team Lead
AIX / ADSM Certified Specialist
Dickens Services Group
(404) 386-9848
jbassi AT gloryworks DOT com
www.TeamDSG.com

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