I've had to throttle some of mine as well. First I set Resource Utilization
to 1. Then if still more is needed I degrade the network. Bizarre, isn't it?

- Kai.

"What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of
questioning." -- Werner Karl Heisenberg

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Winters [mailto:ewinters AT AU1.IBM DOT COM]
> Sent: Monday, 02 December 2002 3:46 PM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Can backup throughput be deliberately throttled on a per node
> basis.
>
> I have an unusual situation where we are interested in deliberately
> throttling network performance, that's right, we might want
> to slow down
> backups from nodes and from server to server.
> Furthermore it has been suggested to me that this capability
> is available
> in TSM.
>
> Apart from tweaking the communication options to impair
> client and server
> communication performance (breaks my heart to consider doing
> it), is there
> something specificly designed to restrict bandwidth usage within TSM?
>
> I appreciate the feedback,
>
> Regards,
>
> Eric Winters
> Sydney Australia
>