We have been evaluating this product and have not been able to achieve the
necessary performance throughput on the restores we require.  I'd like to
know if anyone else out there is successfully using this product.

Environment:

AIX 5.2  and TSM Server 5.2.4.2
6 STK 9840 B tape drives, but we always backup directly to a 1 TB disk pool
Windows 2003  TSM client 5.3.0.8
SQL Server 2000 SP3
Test database 50 GB

Backup times are 42 minutes and restore times are 73 minutes with 6
stripes.   Our production databases will be 3 to 4 times bigger than this
test database.  The TSM buffer is 4096.  The node is non-collocated, but we
have tried with collocated.  The best we could do was get the migration
from disk to "stripe" across 3 volumes.  IBM's recommendation is to go LAN
free, but that is not an option at this point.

Thank you.








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