You may consider splitting the load into two TSM servers or instances.
Depending on the type of clients/files/load you may even need to go
further and get p670/p690 to handle the burden. Or to use several
p650/p630 without LPar-ring.
Do your sizing carefully, change later might be a painful process.

Zlatko Krastev
IT Consultant






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Backing up 2300 servers with about 700,000,000 files. Nightmare to size
just the sizing of the DB is driving crazy....

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Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 5:21 PM
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How many clients do you NEED to backup? We run a p650 with:

8 1.45GHZ processors
16GB memory
6 3590-H  drives
2.4TB  external disk cache
4x146GB internal disks for 2 AIX instances
8x76GB internal disks for TSM DB and Logs
2 IBM 2109 32 port Fibre switches
14 fibre HBA's

We recently moved to this hardware and are backing up close to 500
application servers (Windoze, Unix, AIX, etc) and almost 2000
workstations
(only the My Documents folder(s)). Our intent is to partition and
separate
the Application Servers from Workstations. I really want two physical
servers in different locations so that they can backup each other. This
is a
step in that direction.

The machine screams!!!

John G. Talafous              IS Technical Principal
The Timken Company            Global Software Support
P.O. Box 6927                 Data Management
1835 Dueber Ave. S.W.         Phone: (330)-471-3390
Canton, Ohio USA  44706-0927  Fax  : (330)-471-4034
talafous AT timken DOT com           http://www.timken.com