I am wondering if there is something in TSM that throttles the tape performance we should be getting. I can do a dd test from the operating system to the tape drive and with that receive 2 GB per minute (32 MB/sec) but when I do a test through TSM, I only get 1 GB per minute.
My environment is: TSM 5.7.0 on Solaris 8 Server: Sunfire 880 Tape drives are 9840 Fibre attached. As a result, we are questioning the value of putting in the more expensive tape drives when we can't seem to pump the data through as expected. Any ideas of what I might look at would be appreciated. Thanks, Brenda Collins ING
