==> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Eliza Lau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> True. Seek time is tiny compared to tape mounts. I am just concerned that > the TSM db has to keep track of thousands of volume. How much will it increase > the size of the db. Ours is already 90G at 70% utilized. It's always a good idea to keep the DB size in the back of your mind; but my take is that you probably don't need to think too hard about adding something with size 'thousands' to it. I started to feel that I had too many volumes at one point when I had remote server volumes at 2G, and I had several hundred thousands of them. To help yourself feel more comfortable with this, I suggest that you take a 'Q occ' of a few nodes you consider "small", "moderate", and "large". Count the total number of objects, and compare. I find that even my small nodes have hundreds of thousands of objects. I don't think that the db size per object is particularly close to the size per volume (i.e. the per-volume overhead is probably much much less) , but you can get a taste of the general order of how big is big. - Allen S. Rout
