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Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that NT/2000 cannot run ADSM/TSM, or that it's is a worthless OS. But what I am saying that if you look at the facts about uptime and stability, nothing beats UNIX except for the S/390 environment. I'm not a UNIX fan, but I do realize that if you put ½TB of incremental data on a NT/2000 box, you will sooner or later get problems with I/O capacity. The UNIX operating system is more specialized in cooping with high I/O demands, this is a fact. For small and medium installations NT/2000 can in fact be a great choice of OS. It's easier to handle, you don't have to have UNIX skills(who doesn't now how to handle NT/2000), and the hardware is much more cheaper. So, I'm not trying to start a OS war, I'm just trying to explain the differences. -----------------------------------
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Subject: Re: TSM on WinNT
let's not start another os war.
I have tsm running on nt that I can guarantee is as stable as your unix box.
I agree with what Ron said before, if you got the hardware, it's good.
If your familiar with unix, then maybe aix is for you, if your familiar with
NT, then windows.
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From: Daniel Sparrman [mailto:daniel.sparrman AT EXIST-SWEDEN DOT COM]
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 2:19 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: TSM on WinNT
All good about NT/2000... But it's a fact that a UNIX machine normally can
take higher I(O throughput.
The important thing to think about is what a backup server is really
doing... It's all about I/O...
We've got 600 servers running on a IBM Network Storage Manager, which is
really a RS/6000 machine... No problems.
I wouldn't recommend NT/2000 for larger environments, not all because of I/O
throughput, but also because the stability in a UNIX machine is much
greater..
And really, would you like to put +10TB of data on a machine that isn't
stable?
Best Regards
Daniel Sparrman
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