You should be able to easily confirm if it is in fact an issue regarding the performance of the ESX server by taking a close look at the performance tab of the VM and ESX host. VMware does a pretty good job of providing performance reporting.
Personally, I have kept my TSM servers (and Admin Center) on physical hardware. ~Rick Adamson Jax, Fl. -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Tyree, David Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 3:51 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] slowness with Storage Manager Admin Center 6.2 Both servers respond promptly when I do stuff via linemode. The test box is running on older hardware and a slower network connection but I can't really tell much difference between the two. I do a lot of things via linemode and have always liked it....... -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Roger Deschner Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 1:59 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] slowness with Storage Manager Admin Center 6.2 Or you could just try entering the linemode commands to do the same thing w/ dsmadmc, and see how long that takes. (e.g. QUERY NODE followed by UPDATE NODE.) <SOAPBOX> Who knows - you could become a new convert to linemode. They may finally persuade me to install Admin Center when we go to 6.2, but I won't go happily, and I will probably use it as little as possible. I believe in doing simple things simply, which means linemode. </SOAPBOX> Roger Deschner University of Illinois at Chicago rog...@uic.edu =================== The command line is your friend. =================== (stolen from Andy Raibeck) On Mon, 14 Jun 2010, Lindsay Morris wrote: >I guess you could watch dsmadmc -console output and see how long TSM is >taking to respond to the query. >Maybe THAT's the bottleneck. > >-------------------- >Lindsay Morris >CEO, TSMworks >Tel. 1-859-539-9900 >lind...@tsmworks.com > > >On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Tyree, David <david.ty...@sgmc.org> wrote: > >> I've watched the task manager server while I'm doing something within >> the Admin Center and I'm not seeing much of a bump at all. >> >> I'm getting a 70% bump on the server when I first log in to admin center >> but it quickly drop down to about 4-5%. >> When I go to modify a client and wait for the processing screen to go >> away I get 40-50% bump on the server when I first hit the modify button >> then it drops down to background noise. While I'm waiting several >> seconds for the processing screen to go away the CPU has already dropped >> down to nothing. >> >> I'm seeing bigger bumps on my local machine but nothing really >> substantially different. >> >> I can't really tell any difference between IE or Firefox. >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of >> Lindsay Morris >> Sent: Monday, June 14, 2010 2:34 PM >> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU >> Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] slowness with Storage Manager Admin Center 6.2 >> >> You can watch task manager as you issue a request. >> If you see IE (or whatever browser you're using) using low CPU for 10 >> seconds, then see it busy as the page loads, the slowness is somewhere >> behind that. >> If you see if busy all 10-15 seconds, then it's your browser, or browser >> settings. Try Firefox instead of IE; we've seen that make a huge >> difference >> on some web apps. >> >> You can do similar tricks watching task manager on the Admin Center box. >> >> At least you have a repeatable problem. ;-} >> >> -------------------- >> Lindsay Morris >> CEO, TSMworks >> Tel. 1-859-539-9900 >> lind...@tsmworks.com >> >> >> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Tyree, David <david.ty...@sgmc.org> >> wrote: >> >> > I'm running a new install of the 6.2.0.0 version of the >> > Storage Manager Admin Center on a VM box. It's loaded on Windows 2008 >> R2 >> > Standard (64-bit) with a pair of 2.66 GHz CPUs with 4 gig of memory. >> > It's dedicated to TSM support and nothing else is loaded on the >> machine. >> > It's pointed to a pair of separate TSM servers, the production system >> > running 5.5.4.1 and a test system running 6.1.0.0. >> > >> > According to the product info screen the WebSphere is >> at >> > 7.5.1.0, Java is Standard Edition IBM Corporation 1.5.0, VM is IBM J9 >> VM >> > 2.3. >> > >> > The task manager within the OS says the server is not >> > busy at all and appears to have plenty of available power. The numbers >> > from the ESX server also tell me the box isn't being stressed. >> > >> > When I go into the webpage for the Admin Center via IE >> > or Firefox on my desktop (or others) it's just painfully slow. If I >> > want to modify a client node in Client Nodes and Backup Sets tab I >> have >> > to wait for 10-15 seconds for the page to refresh. Then if I make a >> > change then I have to wait several more seconds for another refresh. >> And >> > so on. >> > >> > It doesn't matter if I'm hitting the production server >> > or the test server, both take 10-15 seconds for something to happen. >> > >> > I really like the new look of the Admin Center but this >> > is slowness is killing me. >> > >> > Do I have something wrong here? >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > David Tyree >> > Interface Analyst >> > South Georgia Medical Center >> > 229.333.1155 >> > >> > Confidential Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, >> is >> > for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain >> > confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, >> use, >> > disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended >> > recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all >> > copies of the original message. >> > >> >