On 22 apr 2010, at 18:33, Allen S. Rout wrote: >>> On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 10:26:05 -0500, Dana Holland >>> <[email protected]> said: > > >> Thanks - we're going to upgrade the RAM to 16gb. But it sounds like I >> don't need to worry about upgrading the processors. >
no you don't. TSM is rarely CPU bound. In larger environments it might become so. 16 GB of RAM should be plenty. >> I didn't realize that it was going to require Websphere. Is this part >> of the Tivoli installation, or will I have to purchase that component >> separately? > It's part of the admin center, which you want to use while you learn to work with the command line. I still prefer to open a UNIX shell and run dsmadmc to to real work, but fortunately, the current version of the admin center is not as bad as it used to be. > > Not a separate purchase. > > You should seriously consider installing the admin center on some > other, ANY other, system image. A cheap RedHat VM is probably the > best place; that way you don't have to use the expesive AIX CPU and > memory to support a commoditized web service. > that and separating a memory hog like the AC from important stuff is always a good plan. > You want P-series and AIX behind the DB2 and TSM layers, but for the > websphere stuff, I don't know why you'd care. > well said. > > - Allen S. Rout -- Met vriendelijke groeten/Kind regards, Remco Post
