Author: "Sutch, Ian (London)" <SutchIan AT EXCHANGE.UK.ML DOT COM>
Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 07:07:35 -0500
Hi, I would be interested in hearing from any Users/Organisations that utilise IBM 3466 NSM's and struggle to navigate through the necessary IBM support Teams. As a user of NSM's I would expect, when
Author: Dale Jolliff <dale.jolliff.b AT BAYER DOT COM>
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 07:38:18 -0500
I had an NSM setup - we had performance issues that forced us to use raw logical volumes for storage and db, and that breaks the "supported" configuration. (try dealing with the NSM bunch in that sit
Author: "Sutch, Ian (London)" <SutchIan AT EXCHANGE.UK.ML DOT COM>
Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 08:52:44 -0500
Dale, Thanks for the info. Its good to know we are not alone! We too have serious performance issues with the NSM'S and are also frustrated by their lack of scalability. We also have Sun TSM Servers
Author: Dale Jolliff <dale.jolliff.b AT BAYER DOT COM>
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 09:54:33 -0500
I found that moving the DB volumes off JFS to raw logical improved our performance tremendously - our full DB backups took less than half the previous time to complete. It was a small system though,
Taken from page 390 of TSM for AIX handbook. 2 sides to the coin........................... The Advantages of Using Journal File System Files TSM supports both journaled file system (JFS) files and r
Author: "Sutch, Ian (London)" <SutchIan AT EXCHANGE.UK.ML DOT COM>
Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 10:53:52 -0500
Dale, Yes the NSM's are the only IBM Boxes that we have but we have now started to move forward on Sun TSM Servers connected to 3494 Libraries. At the moment we have 5 NSM's and 4 TSM Sun Servers. Ad