Folks... ADSM 3.1 was implemented in my shop about 5 years ago (on a mainframe server). At the time, we had 5 Netware Clients, and about 7 AIX Clients, so it made sense to create two domains - one for each platform. As in most shops, we've experienced an Open Systems growth explosion, to the point where I now have approx 30 Netware clients, and 60 UNIX clients, still defined to the original two domains. My server is TSM 4.1, running on S/390. My storage pools for the two domains - from disk to copy pool to offsite tape storage have all grown huge. My feeling is that maintaining the entire environment within two domains is inefficient - backups, migrations, etc take far too long, and I don't dream of turning on collocation.
My questions are: 1) Do most people run their servers with fewer, large domains, or is it prevalent to operate with many smaller domains defined with less client nodes attached? 2) If a new domain is defined, how do you move a node, and all it's backed up files, from one domain to different new domain ? Thank you, Bill Robb
