I hope u don't mind that this isnt exactly what u axed for
Upgrade was pretty smooth going from 4.2.1.x to 5.1 and then to 5.1.5 on Aix
4.3.3 ML10.
Database was at the time approx 30GB took about 1/2 hour. Db is on high
speed san disk. Then I attempted upgrading Aix to 5.1ML03. This is where I
ran into some interesting but known and unknown issues. For ex opsys devices
were all renamed. What could have drivn me nuts is that the san disks were
also renamed- had that pegged tho. All tsm devices need to be redefined not
too bad -I keep about 6 months of drm_plans that have all my defs.

I am a glutton for punishment and also decided to  upgrade to all latest
microcode on my H80, installed latest tape drivers, firmware on switches and
disk controllers in san etc etc

During the upgrade migration of the operating system to 5.1 I decided to
turn on 64 bit and upgraded the TSM s/w to 64 bit.  This is where I ran into
some real problems. My loss2k  backups werent completing at all. After about
3 days of this I decided to drop the opsys back down to 32 bit and continued
running TSM at 64 bit.  I just recvd  a ptf U483674 that allegedly addresses
this problem and I have it on my second tsm server that I am activating In a
couple weeks.

If it werent for the NT issue all in all pretty smooth - time consuming tho
- spent about 2 1/2 days doing all of this-

Expiration processing took forever so I upgraded tsm to 5.1.5.4 didn't take
very long -will take to 5.1.6.1 soon

B4 doing this backup everything - and backup the operating system after
every stage-u might need it

Jose Rivera
Ris Infrastructure




-----Original Message-----
From: Hart, Charles [mailto:charles.hart AT MEDTRONIC DOT COM]
Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 2:09 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: upgrade to TSM 5.1 from TSM 4.1


We went from 4.1.5 to 5.1.5 on AIX 4.3.3 ML10.  Our TSM DB upgrade portion
took approx 7hrs on a 4-way RS/6000 H80.  The only things I can thing of
keep in mind is the paths for DRM if you use, and when you upgrade to 5.1.0
first reg licenses, then 5.1.5.

Regards,

Charles


-----Original Message-----
From: Kamp, Bruce [mailto:bkamp AT MHS DOT NET]
Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 10:40 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: upgrade to TSM 5.1 from TSM 4.1


I went straight from 4.1 to 5.1.1.6.  The database conversion ran as part of
the install....

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Bruce Kamp
Midrange Systems Analyst II
Memorial Healthcare System
E: bkamp AT mhs DOT net
P: (954) 987-2020 x4597
F: (954) 985-1404
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-----Original Message-----
From: Andrews, Bert A [mailto:bert.andrews AT QWEST DOT COM]
Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 8:58 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: upgrade to TSM 5.1 from TSM 4.1


Are there any gotcha's from converting from TSM 4.1 to TSM 5.1? We are going
to go to maint level 4.3.3.10 then apply the TSM 5.1. Are there any problems
or procedures that we should look at first? Will the database from tsm 4.1
convert over to tsm 5.1 or are their special procedures to follow? Can
someone who went thru this process help?




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