Alex,
Nice to know someone understands what I'm talking
about :-).  In working for IBM Global Svcs. and large
customers you get spoiled!!!  Most customers I've
worked with choose TSM due to their large environments
of servers, workstations, and for the automation that
the other backup products don't have.  Just in being
curious what SP nodes are you running-high nodes,
silver nodes, or night hawk nodes?  Put HACMP on a
frame of nodes and HACWS with the control workstations
and it really gets interesting :-).  If I can ever be
of assistance please don't hesitate to yell.  The
larger the environment the more I love it.
Thanks,
Angela
--- Alex Paschal <AlexPaschal AT FREIGHTLINER DOT COM> wrote:
> Angela, in the environments you're talking about,
> Angela, in the environments you're talking about,
> you're absolutely right.
> Where you're not resource bound, yes, by all means,
> utilize those resources.
> In fact, my SPs are prompted, and the ATM attached
> servers, but my
> workstations are polling to take advantage of the
> randomization.  I, and I
> doubt most other people, have the money to put very
> many workstations in the
> enterprise on an SP switch or ATM backbone.  That's
> where randomization
> really pays off.  (Ok, GigE is pretty darned cheap
> these days, and getting
> cheaper, but I don't know of anybody with much GigE
> to the desktop.)
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Angela Hughes [mailto:hughesa1989 AT YAHOO DOT COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 7:29 PM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: The TSM FAQ needs your help
>
>
> The reason to reduce randomization to 0 is for large
> scale environments where schedmode is set to
> prompted
> and you want to limit the amount of time it takes
> for
> the backups to complete.  If you have the resources
> such as CPU, memory, disk, network band width, and
> tape devices this is not an issue but if you don't
> then I'd set randomization accordingly.  If you have
> the resources why not use them is the fore thought.
> Where I've reduced randomization is in large
> environments such as in a SP Complex on the Switch
> network or using large servers such as S80s.  I've
> also done this @ IBM w/H50s and F50s using the ATM
> network.
> Thanks,
> Angela


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