SSD to me seems overkill if you already have 24 GB of RAM, unless you need superfast performance and are going to run a very busy TSM server with a huge amount of concurrent sessions.
-- Gr., Remco On 17 nov. 2010, at 12:16, "Pretorius, Louw <[email protected]>" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am currently in the process of setting up specifications for our new TSM6.2 > server. > > I started by adding 8 x SSD 50GB disks to hold OS and DB, but because of the > high costs was wondering if it's possible to rather buy more RAM and increase > the DB2 cache to speed up the database. > > Currently I have RAM set at 24GB but its way cheaper doubling the RAM than to > buy 8 x SSD's > Currently I have 8 x SSD vs 6 x SAS 15K > > Any ideas? > Louw Pretorius > > -----Original Message----- > From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Shawn Drew > Sent: 16 November 2010 23:04 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM5.5/AIX61 Performance Monitoring > > Looking for some tips on performance monitoring. I've been through the > tuning guide, but I'm looking for monitoring CPU/Memory, HBA usage, disk/tape > performance, etc. > > I'm wondering what are the favorite tools on this list. From what I can > gather nmon doesn't collect tape drive data, which is one of my major > interests. > > I need to collect historical data for long term trends. Does anyone know if > you can keep topas output in single, periodic snapshots like nmon? > > > Regards, > Shawn > ________________________________________________ > Shawn Drew > > > This message and any attachments (the "message") is intended solely for the > addressees and is confidential. If you receive this message in error, please > delete it and immediately notify the sender. Any use not in accord with its > purpose, any dissemination or disclosure, either whole or partial, is > prohibited except formal approval. The internet can not guarantee the > integrity of this message. BNP PARIBAS (and its subsidiaries) shall (will) > not therefore be liable for the message if modified. Please note that certain > functions and services for BNP Paribas may be performed by BNP Paribas RCC, > Inc.
