On Tue, 1 Apr 2003 16:04:19 -0500
David Longo <David.Longo AT HEALTH-FIRST DOT ORG> wrote:

> Which brings up another general question I have been
> thinking about posing for some time.
>
> With TSM the basic disk tuning theory, in a sentence,
> for some years has been "spread DB, LOG and Disk Pool
> out over as many separate disks/spindles as possible".
>
> Well as we are now getting 73 and 144GB disks,
> and who knows what's next, then how are we TSM
> Admins supposed to do that?
>


Well, just buy more disks. Tell the boss that the number of didks is
important, not for the space they provide, just for the parellelism you
need for decent db performance. The upside: the big disks do have very
high sequential reed/write performance, so db backup is probably
faster....

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Remco