Henk,
This past summer we added "4" AS/400s to our TSM environment. We
are running TSM v 3.7.2 on AIX v4.3.3. Our Library is a SCSI connected
3575. There are redbooks out there with great information on setting up
your management class, and tips for setting up BRMS on the AS/400. We found
two limitations.
1> BRMS does all management and expiration of the files stored in TSM.
- For us this meant trusting the AS/400 administrators were properly
managing BRMS. If they were not it would have uncontrollable results on the
TSM server for us.
2> The backup times were extremely slow.
- I looked somewhat extensively but could not find any reasons for
this. The backups were done through Gigabit Ethernet. I found some
postings which indicating there were known performance problems, but nothing
to indicate a solution.
In the end we removed the AS/400's from our environment. Someday
when we upgrade and have a 3494 library we try to add the AS/400s to TSM
again, but this time backing up through Fibre.
Try this link for good information.
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/service/brms/adsmtips.htm
Thanks,
Jon Martin
-----Original Message-----
From: Henk ten Have [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 10:48 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: AS/400 & TSM
Does anyone has experience, i.e. right now, in using TSM for AS/400
backup's? Is there a simple way to do that and what is the performance?
Cheers,
Henk ten Have (heard bad stories about BMRS and ADSM V3 API)
