On 3 mrt 2009, at 19:36, Lindsay Morris wrote:
We run TSM 5.4 on a Linux VM under VMware. It's just for our test lab so we don't have any stressful throughout stats to report, but it works fine.
There is no problem running TSM in a VM, as Lindsay reported. There are however limitations, for instance VMWare can't currently expose FC HBA's or FC tape drives to a VM, so you can't use FC tape drives. IIRC in xen this must be possible, because a domU can (but usually doesn't) directly drive an HBA. Quite a few organisations run TSM on a pSeries LPAR. In all cases of course you must keep in mind that large TSM servers doe a huge amount of I/O, require lots of memory and quite a bit of CPU, making them not the best candidates for virtualization. -- Met vriendelijke groeten/Kind regards Remco Post r.p...@plcs.nl +31 6 24821 622
