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Re: TSM v5.1 Stability on AIX

2002-09-05 11:54:51
Subject: Re: TSM v5.1 Stability on AIX
From: Bob Booth - UIUC <booth AT UIUC DOT EDU>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 10:53:34 -0500
What patch level of 5.1 are you running?


I have hesitated going to 5.1 after hearing some of the stories on this list
about 3494 problems, and resource manager timeouts.

thanks,

Bob Booth

On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 11:23:56AM -0400, William Rosette wrote:
> We went from 4.1 to 5.1 and enjoyed the expire working better with our
> backupsets and volume history.  I thought I would have a gotcha with our
> 3494 tape library but that did not even get me.  I do have to watch the
> Tape Path along with the Tape Drive for tape issues, but other then most
> minor problems our 5.1 seems to be running just as good if not better.  We
> even did a DR test and TSM seemed to work OK, for restore nodes.  Our DR
> plan needs to be revisited so that it can work more effecient, but we
> always seem to want to do more tests each DR test time (once a year).  4
> years ago we had 20 tapes to restore and 2-3 clients, this year was 351
> tapes and 10 full restores, with network and frame cut overs.
>
>
>
> Thank You,
> Bill Rosette
> Data Center/IS/Papa Johns International
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> We are thinking about upgrading our AIX  TSM v4.1 server to v5.1 and
> skipping version 4.2.
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> My questions are:
> Has anyone else done this?
> How stable is v5.1
> Any gotchas that we need to watch out for?
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> Thanks for any information you can provide!!
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> Michael Moore
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