From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On 
Behalf Of Anderson, Matt
>We're currently considering replacing our 2 very large AIX TSM 
>servers with
>a large number (maybe 10 or so) of smaller, Linux based servers.
>The reason
>for the change is to reduce the impact of hardware failure, allow for
>database maintenance within a reasonable window and (less importantly)
>possibly improve backup performance.

Keep in mind a topic that this list has been dealing with for the last
couple of months. When you start moving TSM operations from AIX to
Linux, you will need to allow for sufficient time to export existing
client data from the old servers to the new servers.

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Mark Stapleton