From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Roger Deschner
>Do client compression.

This is (generally) not good advice. The hardware compression performed
by tape drive technology achieves faster, more efficient compression;
the TSM server itself has nothing to do with it. Some clients do not
work and play well with TSM's client compresssion code; NetWare machines
in particular will redline CPU utilitization when they are doing their
own compression, and tend to abend with alarming regularity.

The only time I've seen client-side compression in a favorable light is
when you're working with stressed networks, and in these days of
100Mb/GB Ethernet, stressed networks are becoming increasingly rare.

--
Mark Stapleton