Thanks for all the advice, I am talking about WAN traffic.
Thomas Taylor System Administrator Jos. A. Bank Clothiers Cell (443)-974-5768 From: Bent Christensen <b...@cowi.dk> To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU, Date: 05/15/2014 08:54 AM Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Bandwidth Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> Hi Thomas, Just to be sure, are you talking about LAN or WAN backup traffic? Is your bottleneck in the TSM-client-to-switch connection or the switch-to-tsm-server connection? If TSM is saturating your WAN lines, looking into dedup and compression is the best you can do. If your problem is within a LAN you might have to reconsider your backbone and network design, if that is not an option spreading the client start times might do the trick. But there is no such thing in TSM as bandwidth throttling like in i.e. Symantec Netbackup. - Bent -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom Taylor Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2014 5:56 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] Bandwidth Good morning, I run TSM 6.3.4 How do I throttle bandwidth so that the clients don't choke the network during backups. I have already set a large window for the clients to use, and I am reading about client side de-duplication, and adaptive file backup. Are these the only two avenues to reduce the bandwidth used by TSM? Thomas Taylor System Administrator Jos. A. Bank Clothiers Cell (443)-974-5768
