And I'll speak from personal experience, and when a UNIX guru of my caliber 
(about .204) speaks, one should listen: when you have device driver issues on 
Solaris, you are pretty much completely on your own.  Finding the one guy in 
TSM support land that knows Solaris and the vagaries of Qlogic branded or Sun 
branded Qlogic or, or, or, is no end of fun.

I worked with a customer for about three weeks (literally) to get this working. 
 And still today, we struggle occasionally.

So to me it's either AIX or Windows (yes, you can do a lot of TSM on Windows 
once you get past the bigotry!).  Choose whichever one you have the most 
experience with.

Kelly Lipp
CTO
STORServer, Inc.
485-B Elkton Drive
Colorado Springs, CO 80907
719-266-8777
www.storserver.com


-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Allen S. Rout
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 12:39 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Migrating servers

>> On Fri, 7 Nov 2008 12:25:20 +0100, Remco Post <r.post AT PLCS DOT NL> said:


> My main argument is that solaris is a less commonly used platform for
> TSM servers, so you are more on your own when it comes down to
> platform specific issues.

Don't forget the finger-pointing issue.  "Oh, that's a kernel bug!"
... "Oh, that's an application bug!".


- Allen S. Rout