HI Zoltan,
   the number of objects is proportional to the size of the object name. TSM
5.5 has a maximum architectural limit of 530GB for the TSM DB, and at our
usual (conservative) sizings, this is approximately 500 million objects, at
1kb per object. In reality, many systems have more than this number of
objects - for example, TSM acting as a repository for content manager can
have many more - perhaps a billion?

I hope that helps.

C

2009/2/6 Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU <zforray AT vcu DOT edu>

> "TSM 6.0 has an integrated DB2 engine that doubles the number of storable
> data objects with the potential to manage a billion objects in a single
> system"
>
> Very interesting statement, considering up until December my main TSM
> server was already at 400M objects (per total occupancy).  So, the limit
> was 500M before now?
>
> IIRC, at a TSMUG meet, Fannie-Mae said they had 3-TSM servers with 500GB
> of DB on each with over 3P of storage.  If my DB at 180GB held 400M
> objects, how many objects did they have?
>
>
>
>
> "Laughlin, Lisa" <Lisa.Laughlin AT OA.MO DOT GOV>
> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
> 02/06/2009 08:34 AM
> Please respond to
> "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
>
>
> To
> ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> cc
>
> Subject
> Re: [ADSM-L] TSM v6 - article up on SearchStorage
>
>
>
>
>
>
> And on IBM
>
> http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/26608.wss
>
>
> thanks!
> lisa
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf 
> Of
> Ian Smith
> Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 5:19 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM v6 - article up on SearchStorage
>
> 27 March release date stated on Register
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/06/tsmv6_gets_dedupe/
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf 
> Of
> Remco Post
> Sent: 06 February 2009 10:21
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM v6 - article up on SearchStorage
>
> On 5 feb 2009, at 21:15, Richard Rhodes wrote:
>
> >
> http://searchdatabackup.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid187_gci1
> 346956,00.html<http://searchdatabackup.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid187_gci1%0A346956,00.html>
> >
> >
>
> fortunately, there is no mention of an actual release date, just that
> it's coming. ;-)
>
> ps, I found a similar posting on internetnews.com
>
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