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Re: Tivoli Storage Manager 3.7

1999-10-16 15:36:19
Subject: Re: Tivoli Storage Manager 3.7
From: arhoads <arhoads AT PACBELL DOT NET>
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 12:36:19 -0700
Watch the 'cut a CD' idea.  On NT if you have drivers you might be able
to use a CD-RW but you will have to use disk first to get it onto a
CD-R.  On UNIX the drivers for CD-ROM/RW are much more expensive.

Steffan

"Alan R. White" wrote:
>
> Wow - I'd love 8:1 performance improvement, across the board, with nothing
> more than the s/w upgrade - all managers who repeat such sweeping statements
> (that they heard somewhere) should undertake a vigorous online study course
> at www.dilbert.com.
>
> I can think of a case where this *might* be true and that is using the new
> RESOURCEUTILISATION parameter on the client. If the client has 8
> filesystems, oodles of spare CPU and a huge network pipe to a previously
> understressed server then it could happen..... Of course we all did this
> before but now at 3.7 we can schedule it from the server without multiple
> licensed nodes etc.
>
> I don't think we've got adaptive differencing yet - in a future PTF was my
> understanding. This plus the ability to cut CDs on the server (except for
> mainframe based servers) means we could have a pretty sensible laptop backup
> strategy.
>
> Restore performance improvements = none apparent.
>
> Regards
> Alan
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Julie Phinney <jphinney AT HUMANA DOT COM>
> To: <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
> Sent: Saturday, October 09, 1999 6:48 AM
> Subject: Tivoli Storage Manager 3.7
>
> > My manager has heard 8:1 performance improvements are reported with TSM
> 3.7
> > over ADSM    (sorry, I must abbreviate).
> > I assume this is due to a combination of improvements.. including Adaptive
> > Differencing technology.
> >
> > Does anyone know,  does the bulk of performance improvements happen in the
> > server?
> > Must I upgrade both client and server  to see the improvement?
> > I'm sure the powers that be, here,  will want to see this performance
> > improvement as quickly  as possible  : )
> > I want to tell them what to expect...  some improvement with just a server
> > upgrade    or what.
> >
> > Is anyone using the TSM 3.7  S/390 Edition,  having replaced your ADSM/MVS
> > server?
> > Is there an upgrade fee?    Is the code available to download?
> > Any trouble with it?
> >
> > Thanks  once again, very much.
> > Julie
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