Anyone have their TSM server on a SUN T5440 or have plans to do so?

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Subject: Re: Servers supported on virtual machines--anything new?

On 3 mrt 2009, at 19:36, Lindsay Morris wrote:

> We run TSM 5.4 on a Linux VM under VMware.  It's just for our test lab
> so we don't have any stressful throughout stats to report, but it
> works fine.

There is no problem running TSM in a VM, as Lindsay reported. There
are however limitations, for instance VMWare can't currently expose FC
HBA's or FC tape drives to a VM, so you can't use FC tape drives. IIRC
in xen this must be possible, because a domU can (but usually doesn't)
directly drive an HBA.

Quite a few organisations run TSM on a pSeries LPAR.

In all cases of course you must keep in mind that large TSM servers
doe a huge amount of I/O, require lots of memory and quite a bit of
CPU, making them not the best candidates for virtualization.

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