Divide by function, not by OS. There is no problem throwing all the
different client OSs into one server together. But with one big happy
family server there are inevitable conflicts of schedules, policies,
tuning settings, etc. I am currently dividing into two servers, one for
single-user workstations (i.e. desktop PCs and personal Unix
workstations) and the other for larger servers. Each server will have
some Windows, AIX, Solaris, Linux... clients in it, but within each
server those client nodes will be for similar PURPOSES, and so can be
managed similarly. I'm even going to run the two ITSM servers together
on one computer. This split will have the side benefit of cutting my
database into chunks of a more manageable size. (Lots of discussion on
that in other threads right now.)

Roger Deschner      University of Illinois at Chicago     rogerd AT uic DOT edu

On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, Hagopian, George wrote:

>I have been running TSM for all my AIX boxes...now I will be moving all
>Windows boxes to TSM as well...excited about doing this (yeah yeah yeah) but
>after thinking about it, would it be better to put all the Win boxes (2k,NT)
>to their own TSM server?
>What are the issues...if any...for having 40 or so Win boxes sharing the
>same TSM db and server with 15 large AIX boxes...
>
>TIA
>George Hagopian
>
>PS I also posted this message online forum...not sure what kind of hits it
>is getting
>