ADSM-L

Re: Recommendations for hardware replacement/upgrade

2007-01-09 17:32:02
Subject: Re: Recommendations for hardware replacement/upgrade
From: Bob Booth <booth AT UIUC DOT EDU>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 12:06:07 -0600
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 09:59:20AM -0500, Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU wrote:
> Windows is not in the picture. These are going to be RH Linux systems.
>
> We will probably perform EXPORT TO SERVER to move the clients, one by one,
> since we are probably going to move to new media types (3592 vs 3590) , as
> well.

Look for the type of system that will give you the most PCI-X bandwidth you
can get.  You are going to be pumping quite a bit of data across that bus,
with presumably 4Gb HBA's, some SCSI (?), networking...  TSM is all about
I/O, to disk, tape, and the network.

hth,

bob