Hey, careful, some of us love the IBM LVM and find Veritas
cumbersome and overly confusing. :-)
While we are on the subject, we recently brought up our first TSM
server on Solaris (our other 10 are on AIX) and had a question as to the
disk setup. VxFs and VxVm are available to be used on the disks, but should
we use raw volumes (i.e. /dev/vx/rdsk/stgdg/stg10) or mounted filesystems
(i.e. using the dsmfmt to create the TSM devices)?
We started using filesystems, but found the performance very poor.
We tried tweaking some Veritas settings but could never get it to match the
speed of the raw volumes, so we are now just using the raw volumes.
We are using TSM mirroring for the DB and logs, so is there any
added risk by using the VxVm raw volumes (as opposed to a logged
filesystem)?
Thanks,
Ben
-----Original Message-----
From: Kelly J. Lipp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 4:10 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: TSM on SUN
Our experience with TSM on Solaris has been very good. Installation is very
easy, upgrades are very easy and the code has good support from IBM/Tivoli.
And the added benefit of not having to learn the iLogical Volume Manager!
If your customer has a large Solaris site already, let them use TSM on
Solaris. No point adding another Unix platform in this case. Now, if you
asked about HP the story would be completely different.
Kelly J. Lipp
Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc.
PO Box 51313
Colorado Springs, CO 80949
[EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.storsol.com or www.storserver.com
(719)531-5926
Fax: (240)539-7175
-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Pitur Ey~srsson
Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 9:57 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: TSM on SUN
Hi guys
A big company here in Iceland is thinking about installing TSM on SUN, they
will be the first one to have TSM on SUN here.
My question is,
Is there anything I should know about (bugs, problems) anything sun related
that is different from the other systems.
Or should I recommend just using AIX.?
Kvedja/Regards
Petur Eythorsson
Taeknimadur/Technician
IBM Certified Specialist - AIX
Tivoli Storage Manager Certified Professional
Microsoft Certified System Engineer
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Nyherji Hf Simi TEL: +354-569-7700
Borgartun 37 105 Iceland
URL: http://www.nyherji.is
