Just Monday, I upgraded a customer's twin TSM servers from 5.3.2.2 to
5.4.2.0. Multiple instances of TSM existed on each physical server, and
the TSM installation process automatically upgraded all existing
databases. There were two 130GB databases, and the upgrade on each of
them took about 5 minutes each.

Device driver upgrades went similarly well, and everything was both
hunky and dorey.
 
--
Mark Stapleton
CDW Berbee
System engineer
7145 Boone Avenue North, Suite 140
Brooklyn Park MN 55428-1511
763-592-5963
www.berbee.com
 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf
Of
> Richard Rhodes
> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 6:46 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM server 5.3.3.0->5.4.1.1...no problem?
> 
> Before we perform a major upgrade on our TSM servers, we do a test
> upgrade.
> We do a backup to disk,  restore the backup to a test server (at the
> proper
> aix/tsm versions), then perform the upgrade.  Care must be taken not
to
> allow
> server-to-server communications (bogus ip addresses in the hosts
file),
> Of course, when you start the test instance it gets all kinds of
errors
> for
> all the missing pools/drives/etc, but it proves the upgrade process
and
> gives
> a good estimated time that theupgrade will take.  Plus, it's great
> practice!
> 
> Rick
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>              Anker Lerret
>              <ADSM-L AT LERRET DOT US
>              >
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>              Manager"
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>              .EDU>                     TSM server
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>                                        problem?
> 
>              02/27/2008 03:50
>              PM
> 
> 
>              Please respond to
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>                  Manager"
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> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> We're about to upgrade from TSM server 5.3.3.0 to 5.4.1.1 on 2 TSM
> servers.  I've read through the upgrade procedure.  It looks simple
> enough.  We're already running 5.4.1.1 on another TSM server with no
> problems, so I'm not too concerned about that.  I've looked through
the
> listserv archives and no-one seems to have had major problems with
this
> upgrade.  My problem?  I just found out that our TSM guru will be on
> vacation, so I'll be on my own.  This will be my first TSM upgrade
(though
> I'm quite familiar with AIX upgrades).  Should I worry?  Should I
> reschedule the upgrade?  Have I missed anything?
> 
> My motto: What could POSSIBLY go wrong?
> anker
> 
> 
> 
> Our configuration:
> 
> 9117-550 with 2 LPARSs, each running an instance of TSM server
> AIX 5.3, 5300-07-01-0748
> ACSLS 7.1.0
> Gresham EDT 8.0.0.0
> STK SL8500 library with 14 T10K encrypted drives
> 700 TSM clients
> just over a petabyte of data in the library (total of QUERY AUDITOCC)
> 
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