Not to mention the uptime difference that you will gain from an AIX box.
We had an NT TSM server that we had to replace with an industrial strength
box due to capacity and down time issues running on NT.
Hopefully this will help.



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>From what we've seen, the difference between Wintel and RS6K/pSeries
hardware has been the I/O thruput. In our experience, Wintel
hardware/software just cannot push I/O through like our RS6K hardware
running AIX. That may be in large part due to the fact that Win32 seems to
be the limiting factor, so Linux on Intel may be ok, but we see generally
at
least 2x the I/O thruput on the AIX boxes vs. NT.

Just my 2 cents...

Don Whitlow
Quad/Graphics, Inc.
Manager - Enterprise Computing
Don.Whitlow AT qg DOT com


-----Original Message-----
From: Ray Baughman [mailto:rbaughman AT NATIONALMACHINERY DOT COM]
Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 10:46 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Server AIX vs NT


Hello,

We are looking to replace our TSM server hardware, we are currently running
the TSM server on an IBM H50.  The bean counters are saying that an NT
server would be a lot cheaper than a UNIX server.  They have decided it
needs to be either an IBM UNIX server or an NT server.  Has anyone had any
experience with both NT and AIX servers, and if so what information do you
have regarding performance, stability etc. with one over the other.
Basically I've be told to either cost justify AIX or I'll end up on NT.

Any help would be appreciated.

Ray Baughman
Engineering Systems Administrator
TSM Administrator
National Machinery LLC
Phone 419-443-2257
Fax 419-443-2376
Email rbaughman AT nationalmachinery DOT com