We were using zLinux to host TSM servers with TSM release 5.5 and were happy with performance and memory consumption. We backed-up 100s of servers a night using a z10 processor with multiple IFLs. Once we upgraded to TSM 6.1, the memory consumption became prohibitive (8+ GB). We kept increasing the memory allocations and even after going through all of the DB2 performance tuning parameters for TSM 6.1, we could no longer justify the additional memory cost as compared to stand alone servers for TSM 6.1 so we have moved TSM off of zLinux.
Craig Collins State of WI On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Melancon, Ruddy <melanc...@dot.state.al.us>wrote: > We are in the process of bringing up a Tivoli Storage Manager [TSM] server > using zLinux [SLES11] under zVM [6.2]. We are going to use the IBM7650G > with XIV back end storage to provide Virtual Tape. The idea is to backup > intel servers directly to tape then replicate to remote DR site. > > We have run into problems with memory allocations. We were using 2GB > memory with 750MB of swap space in vdev. We started getting sql errors with > the indication that it was a memory or swap space issue. I have increased > the memory to 3GB and now the image will only allow us to run 11 TSM > processes before getting errors. This will not be good for production. > > I will increase this to 4 GB memory with 2GB of swap space to see what > happens. > > Does anyone have experience and/or recommendations as to the correct > settings for memory allocations? > > Ruddy A. Melancon > IT Systems Specialist, Senior > Alabama Department of Transportation > 334-353-6323 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
