Well, looks like what I have right now would work for you! I have pSeries p660 (6H1) with 2x 600MHx procs and 2GB RAM with AIX 4.3.3 and TSM server 4.2. Use GbE NIC's. Have IBM 3584-L32 library with 8 LTO1 drives FC attached. Also use FAStT 200HA disk for TSM DB and Storage pool. (have 4 total drawers with 10 73 GB disk per drawer.
I have about 250 clients, AIX, Solaris, W2K, Netware, Oracle, MSSQL and a few odds and ends. I backup about 800GB in an 18 hour window and make offsite copies of tapes. Have about 14TB onsite in the one frame of 3584 library. I could get to about 25 TB+ in this frame before needing 2nd frame, with just LTO1 tapes. As we are growing, this system is farely well taxed, would leave you room to grow. We are going to upgrade the 6H1 to 4x 750 Mhz procs and add 2 more GB RAM in next few weeks. Also add 4 LTO2 drives to library. Going to AIX 5.2 and TSM 5.2. How's that? David B. Longo System Administrator Health First, Inc. 3300 Fiske Blvd. Rockledge, FL 32955-4305 PH 321.434.5536 Pager 321.634.8230 Fax: 321.434.5509 [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/23/04 07:19PM >>> Hello All, We will be phasing out our OS/390 mainframe in the next few years. Currently, we have our TSM server installed on the mainframe, so we will need to move it off and on to something else. Based on conversations to this list and the Redbook, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Implementation Guide, I believe that we definitely need to move to AIX. The above Redbook is not very helpful as far as sizing the AIX machine, saying that it is an "inexact" art. Here are our current and future requirements: 1) Right now we are backing up about 150 GB/ night, but we need to add Exchange and a new student information system (Banner) to this. We are estimating that we will soon grow to at least 500 -600 GB/night. 2) Workload consists of 95 clients, consisting of from small 20-30gb Unix and Windows systems, to DB (Oracle) and file servers with half to one terabyte of storage. This will grow to 120 or so clients soon. 3) We are currently storing 10.7 TB total data in two libraries, one local tape library and a second copy of everything at a remote tape library (3494 ATLs w/3590 E drives). Looks like this storage could triple, given how much we will be backing up each night (15 TB in each location). 4) Network is Gigabit Ethernet. 5) We would like to use one large server vs. multiple servers. Does anyone have a similar scenario that is on AIX that works well? Please describe, including tape libraries! Does anyone know of any additional guidance available on choosing an AIX platform size and choosing an appropriate tape library? Thanks! Nancy Brizuela University of Wyoming IBM Systems Group Ivinson Room 238 (307)766-2958 ############################################################## This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain confidential, proprietary, or legally privileged information. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. If you receive this message in error, please immediately delete it and all copies of it from your system, destroy any hard copies of it, and notify the sender. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print, or copy any part of this message if you are not the intended recipient. Health First reserves the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Any views or opinions expressed in this message are solely those of the individual sender, except (1) where the message states such views or opinions are on behalf of a particular entity; and (2) the sender is authorized by the entity to give such views or opinions. ##############################################################
