Mark,
if you decide on Linux, make sure you have plenty of RAM and set
vm.swappiness=0, else TSM will be swapped out to disk and performance
will really suffer. BTW, TSM on the IBM OpenPower really rocks. the
biggest issue with Linux is support, mainly the lack of it.
our environment is;
One OpenPower 9124-720, 4 processors and 6 GB of RAM.
SLES 9 SP3
Single install of TSM server v5.3.3.
100 GB Database presently at 80%.
60 TB Storage presently at 70%.
602 clients; Windows, Linux, and NetWare.
1 TB nightly backup.
HDS SAN; FC for DB + LOG, SATA for storage. no tape!
performance is not an issue, this server never breaks a sweat.
Also use McData Storage Routers for copy pools at DR site.
john
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Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 09:57:10 +0900
From: Mark Scott <MScott AT BUNNINGS.COM DOT AU>
Subject: TSM and Linux
Morning all
Does anyone have any experiences good or bad running Linux as a TSM
Server? We are a reasonable size environment currently running AIX as
our server and Linux/Windows and Aix clients.
The question has been asked for various reasons to change processors
and flavour.
All feed back would be appreciated.
Regards Mark
Mark Scott
Enterprise Storage & Tivoli Team Leader
Bunnings Group Limited
126 Pilbara Street, Welshpool WA 6106
Locked Bag 20, Welshpool DC WA 6985
Phone : (08) 9365 1779
Fax : (08) 9350 6686
Mobile : 0408925402
E-mail : mscott AT bunnings.com DOT au <mailto:mscott AT bunnings.com
DOT au>
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