Next best choice is - stay where you are ! Or make some long-waited upgrades for 20% of the budget - you will get more. TSM stresses not the operating system itself (excluding TCP/IP stack) but the box. Thus the question is formulated bad and you will get bad answer. Ask yourself correct: We are on RS/6000 with N buses and M slots but TSM should not use more than half or third of them. We cannot afford IBM pSeries (not AIX) or Sun Fire (not Solrais) because of budget limitations. So why not to throw our money for an Intel-based box with 1/6xN buses and 1/5xM slots (Windows, Linux is still not having a TSM server) and *downgrade* the server there ??? I will not do it but you have the right to try! Guess what my TSM server's processor is doing - crunching nuts for distributed.net. Count what *does* affect the performance and forget for a while about bells&whistles.
Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: TSM Platform ? Hi, Experts, We have TSM server installed on AIX 4.3.3 which is also the failover server for 2 other production servers. All production clients are AIX. We try to move TSM server to a dedicated one. We can get neither AIX nor Sun because of budget constraint, I think. What would be the next best choice? I was thinking of Linux. Thanks. Regards, Jin Bae Chi (Gus) Data Center 614-287-2496 614-287-5488 Fax e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/03/02 01:49PM >>> If you have AIX installed already, I would hands-down recommend TSM on AIX. -- Joshua S. Bassi IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP Tivoli Certified Consultant - ADSM/TSM Sr. Solutions Architect @ rs-unix.com An IBM Premier Business Partner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell (415) 215-0326 -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of COURBIER Eric Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 3:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TSM Platform ? Hi, we have the project to deploy a TSM server in our site. On it there are AS400, RS6000, Linux and many NT. Can someone advise me on the best platform (AS400 with PASE, AIX, NT) to choose ? thanks Eric -----Message d'origine----- De : Oliver Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Envoy� : mardi 25 juin 2002 08:47 � : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Objet : One Client Two TSM Server I have installed an TSM Test Server on it so that I can try same things, but when I want to connect with the command line to the real TSM server I always change the dsm.opt for the new settings. Is this the only way ? By the way I thougth about the possibility to install a second version of the TSM Client, but the install process checkes that there is already one installed. Oli
