On 31/07, Wanda Prather wrote: > Looking for opinions... > > I'm about to install a TSM server for a new customer who has never had TSM > before. > Very standard TSM config - > > - Plenty powerful Windows host > - 100 mostly windows clients, back up to diskpool, migrate to 3592 tape > drives, copy to 3592 tape and vault. > - 2 TB of disk for diskpool, DB, logs if I need it. > - No need for backupsets. > > > I know there are still folks reporting problems with the TSM for Linux > server, and conversion of existing 5.X DB's is non-trivial. > > But I haven't seen anything in the TSM flashes & open APARS to think I'm > taking much of a risk installing TSM 6.1 + patch on Windows. > And it will save them the grief of doing the upgrade a year from now. > > What does the ADSM-L world think? > > Thanks for any input > W
My rule of thumb for going with new versions of (IBM) software is 6-12 months after release. Before summer I told customers to go with 5.5, now after the summer I'm going to go with 6.1. I dont feel totally comfortable with 6.1 yet but you gotta take the plunge sometime :) Especially since the requirements for DB storage is so different for 6.1 and because of the awkward upgrade process I believe the arguments for 6.1 are pretty strong. -km
