We have seven TSM server process running on seven old rs/6000 sp nodes. We
are disposing of the older sp nodes and purchasing 2 x rs/6000 model m80.
We will be running 4 tsm instances on one server and 3 on the other.
However after purchasing seven adsm-tsm upgrades we are now being informed
by IBM that we should be looking at merging our TSM databases.
We have tried this in the past with the export/import function however this
takes "forever" and we had to cancel the process. The process copies all
the storage pool data onto a separate set of export tapes. We were
estimating it would take 2 months for the process to complete.
We could try it on a node by node basis, but our bigger nodes would be out
of backup/archive action for weeks while the export/import was runnning.
One of our IBM reps is trying to tell me that the data does not need to be
copied onto a separate set of tapes during the export process. He suggests
the process can run in a matter of hours. Surely this is wrong!
Have some new "database merge" features been introduced in tsm 3.7 or 4.1
that I am not aware of?
Thanks in advance
Richard.
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