Angela, in the environments you're talking about, you're absolutely right.
Where you're not resource bound, yes, by all means, utilize those resources.
In fact, my SPs are prompted, and the ATM attached servers, but my
workstations are polling to take advantage of the randomization. I, and I
doubt most other people, have the money to put very many workstations in the
enterprise on an SP switch or ATM backbone. That's where randomization
really pays off. (Ok, GigE is pretty darned cheap these days, and getting
cheaper, but I don't know of anybody with much GigE to the desktop.)
Thanks,
Alex
-----Original Message-----
From: Angela Hughes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 7:29 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: The TSM FAQ needs your help
The reason to reduce randomization to 0 is for large
scale environments where schedmode is set to prompted
and you want to limit the amount of time it takes for
the backups to complete. If you have the resources
such as CPU, memory, disk, network band width, and
tape devices this is not an issue but if you don't
then I'd set randomization accordingly. If you have
the resources why not use them is the fore thought.
Where I've reduced randomization is in large
environments such as in a SP Complex on the Switch
network or using large servers such as S80s. I've
also done this @ IBM w/H50s and F50s using the ATM
network.
Thanks,
Angela
