On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:57:44AM -0500, Sergio Fuentes wrote: > Any thoughts from anyone running a TSM server on Solaris?
I recently installed TSM 5.5.1 server code on a Sun X4540 ("Thumper 2") with 2 x 2.3GHz quad-core Opterons, 32GB RAM, 48 x 1TB 7200RPM internal SATA disks, 3 PCIe slots, and Solaris 10 x86 Update 5. It has only one dual-port 2Gbps FC-AL PCIe HBA driving 4 Sun T10000B tape drives. This was a development server that I decided to test as a TSM server, otherwise I would have preferred a dual-port 4Gbps HBA. But so far it has performed fine. The one catch is that TSM 5.5.1 does not support ZFS volumes (zvols) as raw random access storage pools. So I used ZFS to create a zpool of striped mirrors, created different ZFS file systems (with compression enabled) in place of random access disk storage pools, and then defined a bunch of 50GB TSM sequential volumes in each one. So basically, clients are writing to devtype FILE instead of DISK when they push data to the server. Like many folks have said, choose the OS you best support. I prefer Solaris, so that's what I'm using. RHEL would have been the next choice. I'm not saying the setup I'm using is the fastest out there, but it is adequate for our needs right now. -- Lance Nakata SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Scientific Computing and 2575 Sand Hill Road, MS 97 Computing Services (SCCS) Menlo Park, CA 94025 lnak...@slac.stanford.edu http://www.slac.stanford.edu/