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Re: [ADSM-L] slowness with Storage Manager Admin Center 6.2

2010-06-17 10:02:08
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] slowness with Storage Manager Admin Center 6.2
From: "Prather, Wanda" <wPrather AT ICFI DOT COM>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 09:00:09 -0500
Just a shot in the dark, are you using versions of browsers officially
supported by the TIP? (only supports IE7 and Mozilla 3, does not support
IE8 or Mozilla 3.5). 

If so and you still have issues, I'd open a PMR.  I think support has
traces available for the TIP so they can identify the issue for you.

W




-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Tyree, David
Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 9:00 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] slowness with Storage Manager Admin Center 6.2

I just looked at numbers in the host and it's not showing any stress on
the server.
About the most bump I saw was 10-15% on the CPU. All the other numbers
show a very unused box.

"Policy" says that if the vender supports VM then we use it. At this
point TSM is not supported on VM so it's staying physical. 

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Rick Adamson
Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 8:43 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] slowness with Storage Manager Admin Center 6.2

You should be able to easily confirm if it is in fact an issue regarding
the performance of the ESX server by taking a close look at the
performance tab of the VM and ESX host. VMware does a pretty good job of
providing performance reporting.

Personally, I have kept my TSM servers (and Admin Center) on physical
hardware.

~Rick Adamson
Jax, Fl.

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Tyree, David
Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 3:51 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] slowness with Storage Manager Admin Center 6.2

Both servers respond promptly when I do stuff via linemode. The test box
is running on older hardware and a slower network connection but I can't
really tell much difference between the two. 

I do a lot of things via linemode and have always liked it.......


-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of
Roger Deschner
Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 1:59 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] slowness with Storage Manager Admin Center 6.2

Or you could just try entering the linemode commands to do the same
thing w/ dsmadmc, and see how long that takes. (e.g. QUERY NODE followed
by UPDATE NODE.)

<SOAPBOX>
Who knows - you could become a new convert to linemode. They may finally
persuade me to install Admin Center when we go to 6.2, but I won't go
happily, and I will probably use it as little as possible. I believe in
doing simple things simply, which means linemode.
</SOAPBOX>

Roger Deschner      University of Illinois at Chicago     rogerd AT uic DOT edu
=================== The command line is your friend. ===================
(stolen from Andy Raibeck)



On Mon, 14 Jun 2010, Lindsay Morris wrote:

>I guess you could watch dsmadmc -console output and see how long TSM is
>taking to respond to the query.
>Maybe THAT's the bottleneck.
>
>--------------------
>Lindsay Morris
>CEO, TSMworks
>Tel. 1-859-539-9900
>lindsay AT tsmworks DOT com
>
>
>On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Tyree, David <david.tyree AT sgmc DOT org>
wrote:
>
>> I've watched the task manager server while I'm doing something within
>> the Admin Center and I'm not seeing much of a bump at all.
>>
>> I'm getting a 70% bump on the server when I first log in to admin
center
>> but it quickly drop down to about 4-5%.
>> When I go to modify a client and wait for the processing screen to go
>> away I get 40-50% bump on the server when I first hit the modify
button
>> then it drops down to background noise. While I'm waiting several
>> seconds for the processing screen to go away the CPU has already
dropped
>> down to nothing.
>>
>> I'm seeing bigger bumps on my local machine but nothing really
>> substantially different.
>>
>> I can't really tell any difference between IE or Firefox.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf
Of
>> Lindsay Morris
>> Sent: Monday, June 14, 2010 2:34 PM
>> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>> Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] slowness with Storage Manager Admin Center 6.2
>>
>> You can watch task manager as you issue a request.
>> If you see IE (or whatever browser you're using) using low CPU for 10
>> seconds, then see it busy as the page loads, the slowness is
somewhere
>> behind that.
>> If you see if busy all 10-15 seconds, then it's your browser, or
browser
>> settings.  Try Firefox instead of IE; we've seen that make a huge
>> difference
>> on some web apps.
>>
>> You can do similar tricks watching task manager on the Admin Center
box.
>>
>> At least you have a repeatable problem.  ;-}
>>
>> --------------------
>> Lindsay Morris
>> CEO, TSMworks
>> Tel. 1-859-539-9900
>> lindsay AT tsmworks DOT com
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Tyree, David <david.tyree AT sgmc DOT org>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >                I'm running a new install of the 6.2.0.0 version of
the
>> > Storage Manager Admin Center on a VM box. It's loaded on Windows
2008
>> R2
>> > Standard (64-bit) with a pair of 2.66 GHz CPUs with 4 gig of
memory.
>> > It's dedicated to TSM support and nothing else is loaded on the
>> machine.
>> > It's pointed to a pair of separate TSM servers, the production
system
>> > running 5.5.4.1 and a test system running 6.1.0.0.
>> >
>> >                According to the product info screen the WebSphere
is
>> at
>> > 7.5.1.0, Java is Standard Edition IBM Corporation 1.5.0, VM is IBM
J9
>> VM
>> > 2.3.
>> >
>> >                The task manager within the OS says the server is
not
>> > busy at all and appears to have plenty of available power. The
numbers
>> > from the ESX server also tell me the box isn't being stressed.
>> >
>> >                When I go into the webpage for the Admin Center via
IE
>> > or Firefox on my desktop (or others) it's just painfully slow.  If
I
>> > want to modify a client node in Client Nodes and Backup Sets tab I
>> have
>> > to wait for 10-15 seconds for the page to refresh. Then if I make a
>> > change then I have to wait several more seconds for another
refresh.
>> And
>> > so on.
>> >
>> >                It doesn't matter if I'm hitting the production
server
>> > or the test server, both take 10-15 seconds for something to
happen.
>> >
>> >                I really like the new look of the Admin Center but
this
>> > is slowness is killing me.
>> >
>> >                Do I have something wrong here?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > David Tyree
>> > Interface Analyst
>> > South Georgia Medical Center
>> > 229.333.1155
>> >
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