Putting all the OS/HW dogma aside, IBM/Tivoli doesn't support TSM on NT as seriously as it does on other, more 'expensive' platforms.
Earlier this year, we discovered a serious (fatal actually) flaw with TSM on WinNT 4. TSM would hang each and every time a platter was unmounted from a drive in a 3995-C66 optical library. The bug was reported the same day it was discovered, and escalated to management within a week. The answer Tivoli gave was "wait for the next maintenance release". It took four weeks. On larger, more expensive platforms, patches of this sort are of a higher priority. Why? Because the customer running on more expensive hardware likely spent the extra money for a higher level of performance. I doubt I would have waited more than two or three days of the problem I described had appeared on AIX. -JD. >We are considering installing TSM server, and are being 'encouraged' to >run it on AIX but are a little cold to the idea. We have more >experience supporting Windows 2000. > >Does anyone have any feedback on the stability or performance of TSM >server running on Windows? > >Feel free to mail directly if you have any information that you willing >to share but are uncomfortable putting on the list. > >Thanks > >---------------- >Powered by telstra.com
