Hopefully, the culprit will respond directly, but I'll kick in what I know of them.
There is a large US company that is backing up some 30,000 desktop clients to TSM. They use 10 NT Servers to handle this load. That breaks down to 3000 clients/system. So, yes, it can be done. I don't know for sure, but I'm thinking they are seeing session counts higher than yours. If they aren't they're spreading the backups over a longer window. Kelly J. Lipp Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc. PO Box 51313 Colorado Springs, CO 80949 [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.storsol.com or www.storserver.com (719)531-5926 Fax: (240)539-7175 -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Warner, Alan Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 4:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Max number of clients on a single TSM server? I'm currently supporting over 1500 clients (1250 PC's + 250 servers) off of a single 3466 Netstore box (that's an RS6000 with AIX and TSM server running on it, plus 3494 tape library). Database size utilized is about 62 GB. I'm about to push my luck and add another 500 PC clients to this. I can now see that overnight -- when most of the backups take place -- the session count sometimes gets up over 300 at one time (2 sessions per client). Does anybody out there have any experience going over 2,000 clients on a TSM server? As long as I keep adding disk storage pool space and database space, am I OK? Is there a point where this whole thing will begin to crumble? (Assume network capacity is not a problem.) Regards, Alan
