How large of an envirnment are you going to back up?
I have about 200 nodes (AIX, NT/2000 & Netware) backing up about 200Gig a
night & am using an IBM M80 with 4 3590 E1A's (soon to be 6 H1A's).......

Bruce Kamp

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Cini [mailto:Mark.Cini AT CFGRAPHICS DOT COM]
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 5:02 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: New to TSM


Hello all.

We are in the process of ditching our current BackupExec/ArcServe setup in
favor of a central TSM environment.  We have decided to expand our
existing 3494 tape library (additional frame w/ 2 3590 drives, SCSI) but
haven't selected the hardware/operating system for the TSM server.  These
are our options:

Dell 2600/Win2000
pSeries/AIX
iSeries820/PASE

Any recommendations for one system over another for the TSM server?  The
Win2000 option would be the cheapest but would it cause headaches down the
road?

thanks,

Mark Cini
Systems Administrator
CorrFlex Display & Packaging