>> On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 07:39:08 +0100, Dierk Harbort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> I am working on a new design of our tsm environment - a lot of changes in > sight this year. So here a litte question to check my ideas for the new > design: > IBM support told me, that it would be the best to have not more than about > 6-8 diskvolumes for the tsm database, due to the recovery mode on tsm > server start. > Do you agree? Are there any recommendations like this for the tsm > logvolumes? I am thinking about 8x 6145MB dbvolumes and 8x 4097MB > logvolumes. > Or any other things to consider? There's extensive art on this in the archives. The nutshell is: Try to avoid contention on spindles or database threads. If you're using modern disk with a cache in front of it, spindles are unlikely to be too big a problem. Multiple volumes then permit multiple worker threads to work. - Allen S. Rout
