For us, we're growing quickly enough that it's always easier to upgrade/install the newest version today than it is tomorrow. If you think your site will be significantly bigger in the next couple years, I would go with v7.1 and save yourself the upgrade hassle.
We went with v6.1 on our new TSM servers when v6.1 was new, and our existing systems were all v5.5. v6.1 was kind of rough, but IBM was very responsive in finding workarounds for our problems, and eventually patched all the bugs. I expect v7.1 to be much more polished than v6.1, since the database backend isn't changing this time. On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 10:27:10AM +0000, Nachtwey, Bjoern wrote: > Dear all, > > reading the discussion about "TSM 7.1 - should I upgrade or not" seems to > give me the answer for the question which version should I take for a > completely new installation: for a new installation take TSM 7.1. > > but -- maybe some remarks are not given, what if so? therefore I do ask: > > Does anyone have remarks, experiences that suggest to take V6.3 instead of > V7.1? Please tell me! > > We're going to use Linux on Dell R620 servers, i6k libraries and lto5/6 > drives. > > > thank you for any comment & best regards > Bjørn -- -- Skylar Thompson (skyl...@u.washington.edu) -- Genome Sciences Department, System Administrator -- Foege Building S046, (206)-685-7354 -- University of Washington School of Medicine
