Ricardo,

I will be rehosting soon from OS/390 to either W2k or sun.
What precisely was your capacity issue?  We are leaning to W2k
right now, if our requirements are below your problem we may be
OK with W2k.

TIA,

Bill

At 03:39 PM 11/11/2002, you wrote:
>Not to mention the uptime difference that you will gain from an AIX box.
>We had an NT TSM server that we had to replace with an industrial strength
>box due to capacity and down time issues running on NT.
>Hopefully this will help.
>
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> From what we've seen, the difference between Wintel and RS6K/pSeries
>hardware has been the I/O thruput. In our experience, Wintel
>hardware/software just cannot push I/O through like our RS6K hardware
>running AIX. That may be in large part due to the fact that Win32 seems to
>be the limiting factor, so Linux on Intel may be ok, but we see generally
>at
>least 2x the I/O thruput on the AIX boxes vs. NT.
>
>Just my 2 cents...
>
>Don Whitlow
>Quad/Graphics, Inc.
>Manager - Enterprise Computing
>Don.Whitlow AT qg DOT com
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ray Baughman [mailto:rbaughman AT NATIONALMACHINERY DOT COM]
>Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 10:46 AM
>To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>Subject: Server AIX vs NT
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>
>Hello,
>
>We are looking to replace our TSM server hardware, we are currently running
>the TSM server on an IBM H50.  The bean counters are saying that an NT
>server would be a lot cheaper than a UNIX server.  They have decided it
>needs to be either an IBM UNIX server or an NT server.  Has anyone had any
>experience with both NT and AIX servers, and if so what information do you
>have regarding performance, stability etc. with one over the other.
>Basically I've be told to either cost justify AIX or I'll end up on NT.
>
>Any help would be appreciated.
>
>Ray Baughman
>Engineering Systems Administrator
>TSM Administrator
>National Machinery LLC
>Phone 419-443-2257
>Fax 419-443-2376
>Email rbaughman AT nationalmachinery DOT com

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Bill Colwell
C. S. Draper Lab
Cambridge Ma.