Maybe a little more info... How many clients, how much nightly backup data, 
what's the mix of Windows / Unix clients retention information, DB backups, 
e-mail servers etc.



-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Bernd Wiedmann
Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 6:13 AM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: enterprise setup

hi everyone,

we are planning to do some enterprise configuration.
Now, what I have in mind is something like this:

1 TSM-Master-Server, which acts as configuration manager,
  central event-logger, and administration-server. 5 drives
  in a storagetek library.
  maybe hot standby.
  
n instances of TSM-Server, which serve the nodes.
  but, this TSM-Server won't have any tape or disk-storage.
  because they send all data to the master-server via virtual volumes.
  
This configuration has the big advantage that the instances don't need drives, 
or something like that.

So here are my questions:
Does anyone has such a environment?
Does anyone know any pitfalls?
Does that concept make sense to you?

thanks in advance

best regards
Bernd Wiedmann





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