Are you looking purely at a lift and shift hardware change here, or at a clean 
installation of TSM Server (at 5.5.3 for example) and migrating clients into 
the new instance?

Cheers,

/David Mc
London, UK

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Kurt Buff
Sent: 12 October 2009 18:54
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] Migration for Windows-based installation

All,

We have a TSM server that's running out of steam, and nearing the end
of its expected reliable life. We have Version 5, Release 3, Level 4.6
installed, with various levels of clients installed on our servers.
The server has 1gb RAM, roughly 2tb of disk storage, but it's old/slow
PATA, and the OS is Win2k Pro. Definitely not ideal.

The tape robot is a Spectralogic T50, with two LTO3 drives and 25
slots, out of which we expect to get much more life.

We expect to replace the server with a new Dell server with 3tb of
SATA disk, 3gb RAM, Win2k3 (32bit), and use the current tape robot.

I'd like to get to the newest in the 5.x series on the new server,
since the talk on this list about moving to 6.x indicates to me that
we'd be better off staying at 5.x for now.

I've been casting about, and can't seem to find documentation on how
to migrate the setup to the new machine.

Does anyone have a pointer to good documentation on doing this?

Frankly, we've been given a quote by a VAR, and though the number of
hours they are quoting seem reasonable, the price they're asking to
work with us on this is beyond our budget.

Thanks

Kurt

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