Could you specify which server you are looking at ?
We are running all our tsm servers on SUN and FJ PrimePower

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Hans Christian Riksheim
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 3:55 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: SUN CMT servers vs UltraSPARC for TSM

Hello, list.

We are speculating whether we should employ the latest CMT-server from
SUN as TSM-servers. The CMT-servers are many cores/many threads but each
thread is relatively slow(1,2/1,4 GHz) compared to Ultra Sparc(2,3Ghz).

My question is if TSM benefits from many threads or if we should go for
single thread performance. I guess expiration is a single thread process
but that depends mainly on IO. Maybe many simultanious client operations
would benefit from many threads. How about TSM version 6?

I really don't know here.


Any thoughts?



Regards

Hans Chr.

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