Re: New to TSM V6.1

2010-02-25 Thread Richard Sims 

The front of the server manuals carries a summary of what's new in
each release.  Additionally, IBM maintains a tradition of creating a
redbook for each new release, with an exposition on new features: look
at http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247718.html.  And you can
search for specific details in IBM Technotes about TSM 6.1, as well as
review past customer postings on issues in the ADSM-L archives.

Note that the search function remains defective in the ill-conceived
generalized Support pages which arbitrarily replaced the once-great
TSM Support Page which IBM took away from customers.  (I had to press
the Web development department to acknowledge that the search function
was badly engineered, where Defect 1247 has been open since February
9th on resolving the problems therein.)

   Richard Sims

Re: New to TSM V6.1

2010-02-25 Thread Bos, Karel 
Hi,

Useful information can be found @
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tsminfo/v6/index.jsp

Regards/Met vriendelijke groet,

Karel

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Subject: New to TSM V6.1

Hi,



Just recently I've installed TSM V6.1. I just wonder, is there any
document that tells me about differences or what change from TSM version
5.x.x to this new version.

Anyway, I have couple of questions on this new version (actually I've a
lot) :



1.   Where is the "dsmadmc" utility command ? I can't find it ! Does
IBM remove it ? Or change the name ?

2.   How to extend the tsm DB and LOG if we need bigger size catalog
? or the new TSM DB doesn't work like it was ?





Best Regards,



Martin P

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Re: New to TSM on AIX and using TSM as Library Manager

2010-01-22 Thread Gee, Norman 
I did the same thing 3 years ago.  I was using RMM instead of CA-1.
z/OS with a TMS would automatically check in volumes.

I have schedule a administrative command to run once a week to check in
the volumes

checkin libvolume library-name search=bulk checklabel=barcode
status=private waittime=0

That is what I missed about the mainframe, all of the automation is
built in. I had a lot of automation base on messages that no longer
works.
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Pagnotta, Pam
Sent: Friday, January 22, 2010 7:18 AM
To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: New to TSM on AIX and using TSM as Library Manager

Hello,

We have been running TSM on MVS for 15 years, using CA-1 as our Tape
Management system without any problems, but we have recently been
working on moving to TSM on AIX. We have a TS3500 Tape Library and we
are using our new TSM server as the Library Manager. We also are using
TSMManager and its Vaulting Manager.

We send our tapes off-site on a weekly basis and when tapes are returned
they go to another area in our building for an extra week before being
returned to the Tape Library. This leaves a gap of 10 days between the
time the Check-in report was originally run to when the tapes are
actually available for use again.

Does anyone have a clever way to handle this so that the tapes are once
again made available to the Library Manager? We are finding that the
tapes go into the library but are left in import mode. Do we need to
rerun the Check-in?

Any insights into how others are handling similar situations, would be
greatly appreciated.

Sincerely,

Pam


Pam Pagnotta
Sr. Systems Engineer
Energy Enterprise Solutions (EES), LLC
Supporting IM-621.1, Enterprise Service Center East
Office: 301-903-5508
Mobile: 301-326-7296
Email: pam.pagno...@hq.doe.gov
Location: USA (EST/EDT)

Re: New to TSM

2003-06-12 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT 
Yes, wrong read. With these numbers and Windows knowledge, TSM on Windows
is just fine.
Sorry for misleading answer.

Zlatko Krastev
IT Consultant






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The estimates were 50-75GB daily (not 1 TB daily), 22 clients - a pretty
simple load for W2K.

-Original Message-
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Subject: Re: New to TSM

Mark,

based on additional info I would rather recommend going with AIX. The
suggestion to go with the OS you have more in-house expertize (i.e. Win)
is still valid.
However moving 1 TB you approach the limits of Windows. Dig down the list
archives and you will find a lot of discussions, my personal opinion is
that Windows should be used for up to 0.5-1 TB/24h. Right now your
estimates are for 1 TB, they will not decrease in the future, and getting
better service (performance / reliability / flexibility) users tend to put
on some unexpected additional load.
And main reason is not the performance as many people argue, but
availability and flexibility. Doing devices maintenance on Windows without
reboots is like walking on thin ice. And TSM experience showed that
instead of benefits Windows PnP functionality generated additional
problems.

Bottom line: even with small or no AIX knowledge in house, do not take AIX
out of the equation. Later migration from one platform to another would be
hard, non-trivial and time-consuming task.
For your requirements newer pSeries 630 or some existing pSeries 660 with
2 processors ought to be a good answer.

Another point - SCSI vs. FC drives:
Even if you start with single TSM server and all clients doing backup over
LAN, consider FC-attached drives with or without SAN hub/switch despite
small investment increase. Performance figures of *same* drive are better
with FC-attachment. Later migration of bigger servers (Domino and MS SQL
are good candidates) to LAN-free would be quick and easy.

Zlatko Krastev
IT Consultant






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Thanks for all the good info so far.  Here are some more details on our
environment:

We will initially be backing up 22 nodes, all of which will be a mix of
Windows NT and 2000 file servers.  One will be SQLServer on W2K and one
will be Domino 6 on W2k.  We also want to look at backing up Macintosh
design systems as well as laptops/PCs for power users.  Overall, a total
of about 1T will be backed up with approximately 50-75GB written to tape
daily.  We'd like to keep about 4 to 5 file versions on disk as well. Some
of the nodes are local to the data center but many will be pulled accross
the WAN (frame relay, 512k).  Our local Tivoli rep ran the numbers and
told us it shouldn't be a problem.

We haven't purchased any hardware yet for TSM, as management wants to be
sure we pick the right combination.  I am leaning towards TSM server
running on Win2000 because of our current in-house expertise.

We are excited about the capabilities of TSM combined with an estimated
$100k savings over the next year in hardware replacement costs alone.

Mark Cini
Systems Administrator
CorrFlex Display & Packaging



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How large of an envirnment are you going to back up?
I have about 200 nodes (AIX, NT/2000 & Netware) backing up about 200Gig a
night & am using an IBM M80 with 4 3590 E1A's (soon to be 6 H1A's)...

Bruce Kamp

-Original Message-
From: Mark Cini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 5:02 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: New to TSM


Hello all.

We are in the process of ditching our current BackupExec/ArcServe setup in
favor of a central TSM environment.  We have decided to expand our
existing 3494 tape library (additional frame w/ 2 3590 drives, SCSI) but
haven't selected the hardware/operating system for the TSM server.  These
are our options:

Dell 2600/Win2000
pSeries/AIX
iSeries820/PASE

Any recommendations for one system over another for the TSM server?  The
Win2000 option would be the cheapest but would it cause headaches down the
road?

thanks,

Mark Cini
Systems Administrator
CorrFlex Display & Packaging

Re: New to TSM

2003-06-12 Thread Thomas A. La Porte 
Agreed. We have three AIX servers in our studio--out of over 1000
servers and workstations--and those are our TSM servers.

Granted, we are a Unix shop, but as most non-AIX Unix admins will
tell you, AIX can be a very different beast. Nevertheless, the
amount of adminstrative work we have had to do on these boxes
over the past five years (yes, *five* years) has been negligible.

To bring in another thread, we are moving our TSM servers to
Linux, but not as a result of a disappointment with AIX, simply
keeping in line with corporate strategy.

 -- Tom

Thomas A. La Porte, Dreamworks SKG


On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Dan Goodman wrote:

>Mark Cini wrote:
>
> > ...
>> We haven't purchased any hardware yet for TSM, as management wants to be
>> sure we pick the right combination.  I am leaning towards TSM server
>> running on Win2000 because of our current in-house expertise.
>>
>> We are excited about the capabilities of TSM combined with an estimated
>> $100k savings over the next year in hardware replacement costs alone.
>
>Have you considered that perhaps the reason you have more inhouse Win2k
>expertise is because Win2k requires more support expertise?
>
>Don't forget to factor in the Win2k support costs, and be sure to get
>actuals from other users, not just published whitepapers.
>
>A word to the wise...
>
>AIX is a scalable, reliable workhorse, and is the native platform for
>TSM. These are not things that should not be overlooked, IMHO.
>
>Dan Goodman
>Systems Engineer Specialist
>Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
>215-503-6808
>
>
>
>

Re: New to TSM

2003-06-12 Thread Dan Goodman 
Mark Cini wrote:

> ...
We haven't purchased any hardware yet for TSM, as management wants to be
sure we pick the right combination.  I am leaning towards TSM server
running on Win2000 because of our current in-house expertise.
We are excited about the capabilities of TSM combined with an estimated
$100k savings over the next year in hardware replacement costs alone.
Have you considered that perhaps the reason you have more inhouse Win2k
expertise is because Win2k requires more support expertise?
Don't forget to factor in the Win2k support costs, and be sure to get
actuals from other users, not just published whitepapers.
A word to the wise...

AIX is a scalable, reliable workhorse, and is the native platform for
TSM. These are not things that should not be overlooked, IMHO.
Dan Goodman
Systems Engineer Specialist
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
215-503-6808

Re: New to TSM

2003-06-12 Thread Rushforth, Tim 
The estimates were 50-75GB daily (not 1 TB daily), 22 clients - a pretty
simple load for W2K.

-Original Message-
From: Zlatko Krastev/ACIT [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: June 12, 2003 1:49 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: New to TSM

Mark,

based on additional info I would rather recommend going with AIX. The
suggestion to go with the OS you have more in-house expertize (i.e. Win)
is still valid.
However moving 1 TB you approach the limits of Windows. Dig down the list
archives and you will find a lot of discussions, my personal opinion is
that Windows should be used for up to 0.5-1 TB/24h. Right now your
estimates are for 1 TB, they will not decrease in the future, and getting
better service (performance / reliability / flexibility) users tend to put
on some unexpected additional load.
And main reason is not the performance as many people argue, but
availability and flexibility. Doing devices maintenance on Windows without
reboots is like walking on thin ice. And TSM experience showed that
instead of benefits Windows PnP functionality generated additional
problems.

Bottom line: even with small or no AIX knowledge in house, do not take AIX
out of the equation. Later migration from one platform to another would be
hard, non-trivial and time-consuming task.
For your requirements newer pSeries 630 or some existing pSeries 660 with
2 processors ought to be a good answer.

Another point - SCSI vs. FC drives:
Even if you start with single TSM server and all clients doing backup over
LAN, consider FC-attached drives with or without SAN hub/switch despite
small investment increase. Performance figures of *same* drive are better
with FC-attachment. Later migration of bigger servers (Domino and MS SQL
are good candidates) to LAN-free would be quick and easy.

Zlatko Krastev
IT Consultant






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Thanks for all the good info so far.  Here are some more details on our
environment:

We will initially be backing up 22 nodes, all of which will be a mix of
Windows NT and 2000 file servers.  One will be SQLServer on W2K and one
will be Domino 6 on W2k.  We also want to look at backing up Macintosh
design systems as well as laptops/PCs for power users.  Overall, a total
of about 1T will be backed up with approximately 50-75GB written to tape
daily.  We'd like to keep about 4 to 5 file versions on disk as well. Some
of the nodes are local to the data center but many will be pulled accross
the WAN (frame relay, 512k).  Our local Tivoli rep ran the numbers and
told us it shouldn't be a problem.

We haven't purchased any hardware yet for TSM, as management wants to be
sure we pick the right combination.  I am leaning towards TSM server
running on Win2000 because of our current in-house expertise.

We are excited about the capabilities of TSM combined with an estimated
$100k savings over the next year in hardware replacement costs alone.

Mark Cini
Systems Administrator
CorrFlex Display & Packaging



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How large of an envirnment are you going to back up?
I have about 200 nodes (AIX, NT/2000 & Netware) backing up about 200Gig a
night & am using an IBM M80 with 4 3590 E1A's (soon to be 6 H1A's)...

Bruce Kamp

-Original Message-
From: Mark Cini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: New to TSM


Hello all.

We are in the process of ditching our current BackupExec/ArcServe setup in
favor of a central TSM environment.  We have decided to expand our
existing 3494 tape library (additional frame w/ 2 3590 drives, SCSI) but
haven't selected the hardware/operating system for the TSM server.  These
are our options:

Dell 2600/Win2000
pSeries/AIX
iSeries820/PASE

Any recommendations for one system over another for the TSM server?  The
Win2000 option would be the cheapest but would it cause headaches down the
road?

thanks,

Mark Cini
Systems Administrator
CorrFlex Display & Packaging

Re: New to TSM

2003-06-12 Thread Peter Turlis 
I'm running TSM on both AIX ( an M80 4-way with IBM ESS/Shark disk ) and an
AS/400 iSeries 810-2way.

The iSeries is has the following positive attributes:
- Disk Management is super easy, no need to worry about file systems, LVM
configuration, etc.
- Work Management is wonderful compared to AIX. It was easy to "confine"
TSM to its own subsystem, to monitor and control cpu and memory resources
used, and tune to overall machine.
- In the event of a complete MELTDOWN of the TSM server ( OS, file system,
hardware ) the AS/400 is a MUCH simpler machine to recover, particularly if
you consider having to recover on dissimilar hardware, like at a disaster
recovery site.

iSeries Negatives:
-There is an extra layer ( OS/400 ) involved with the libraries. You have
to use OS/400 to move tapes in and out of the library ( at least this is my
experience ).
- There is no NATIVE TSM Backup Archive client for OS/400. I like the
features available in the AIX client that allow you to do things like:
Display the tape library, and output to a comma delimited file. I have not
found a way to do this on the AS/400, yet. Tivoli is nearing BETA for an
OS/400 client though.

Other Notes:
- I'm getting better performance, currently, with OS/400 vs AIX. Although
there are a lot of variables and to a certain extent the analysis is apples
vs oranges.

- IBM will tell you that  you can't run BOTH the TSM Server  and  TDP/API
for NOTES on the same OS/400 instance. They're wrong, it works fine, its
simply a matter of creating a symbolic link to facilitate the INSTALL
process.

Peter Turlis
(860) 571-5399

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... the Facts don't count



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Hello all.

We are in the process of ditching our current BackupExec/ArcServe setup in
favor of a central TSM environment.  We have decided to expand our
existing 3494 tape library (additional frame w/ 2 3590 drives, SCSI) but
haven't selected the hardware/operating system for the TSM server.  These
are our options:

Dell 2600/Win2000
pSeries/AIX
iSeries820/PASE

Any recommendations for one system over another for the TSM server?  The
Win2000 option would be the cheapest but would it cause headaches down the
road?

thanks,

Mark Cini
Systems Administrator
CorrFlex Display & Packaging

Re: New to TSM

2003-06-12 Thread Zlatko Krastev/ACIT 
Mark,

based on additional info I would rather recommend going with AIX. The
suggestion to go with the OS you have more in-house expertize (i.e. Win)
is still valid.
However moving 1 TB you approach the limits of Windows. Dig down the list
archives and you will find a lot of discussions, my personal opinion is
that Windows should be used for up to 0.5-1 TB/24h. Right now your
estimates are for 1 TB, they will not decrease in the future, and getting
better service (performance / reliability / flexibility) users tend to put
on some unexpected additional load.
And main reason is not the performance as many people argue, but
availability and flexibility. Doing devices maintenance on Windows without
reboots is like walking on thin ice. And TSM experience showed that
instead of benefits Windows PnP functionality generated additional
problems.

Bottom line: even with small or no AIX knowledge in house, do not take AIX
out of the equation. Later migration from one platform to another would be
hard, non-trivial and time-consuming task.
For your requirements newer pSeries 630 or some existing pSeries 660 with
2 processors ought to be a good answer.

Another point - SCSI vs. FC drives:
Even if you start with single TSM server and all clients doing backup over
LAN, consider FC-attached drives with or without SAN hub/switch despite
small investment increase. Performance figures of *same* drive are better
with FC-attachment. Later migration of bigger servers (Domino and MS SQL
are good candidates) to LAN-free would be quick and easy.

Zlatko Krastev
IT Consultant






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Thanks for all the good info so far.  Here are some more details on our
environment:

We will initially be backing up 22 nodes, all of which will be a mix of
Windows NT and 2000 file servers.  One will be SQLServer on W2K and one
will be Domino 6 on W2k.  We also want to look at backing up Macintosh
design systems as well as laptops/PCs for power users.  Overall, a total
of about 1T will be backed up with approximately 50-75GB written to tape
daily.  We'd like to keep about 4 to 5 file versions on disk as well. Some
of the nodes are local to the data center but many will be pulled accross
the WAN (frame relay, 512k).  Our local Tivoli rep ran the numbers and
told us it shouldn't be a problem.

We haven't purchased any hardware yet for TSM, as management wants to be
sure we pick the right combination.  I am leaning towards TSM server
running on Win2000 because of our current in-house expertise.

We are excited about the capabilities of TSM combined with an estimated
$100k savings over the next year in hardware replacement costs alone.

Mark Cini
Systems Administrator
CorrFlex Display & Packaging



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How large of an envirnment are you going to back up?
I have about 200 nodes (AIX, NT/2000 & Netware) backing up about 200Gig a
night & am using an IBM M80 with 4 3590 E1A's (soon to be 6 H1A's)...

Bruce Kamp

-Original Message-
From: Mark Cini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: New to TSM


Hello all.

We are in the process of ditching our current BackupExec/ArcServe setup in
favor of a central TSM environment.  We have decided to expand our
existing 3494 tape library (additional frame w/ 2 3590 drives, SCSI) but
haven't selected the hardware/operating system for the TSM server.  These
are our options:

Dell 2600/Win2000
pSeries/AIX
iSeries820/PASE

Any recommendations for one system over another for the TSM server?  The
Win2000 option would be the cheapest but would it cause headaches down the
road?

thanks,

Mark Cini
Systems Administrator
CorrFlex Display & Packaging

Re: New to TSM

2003-06-11 Thread Stapleton, Mark 
From: Mark Cini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> We also want to look at backing up Macintosh
> design systems as well as laptops/PCs for power users.  

One cautionary note: the current Mac client does not support a scheduler
service unless the machine is logged on with a root-equivalent user at
the time of the scheduled backup. Yeah, you can password-protect your
screensaver...

BTW, the advice about using AIX as the TSM server OS is valid. The
Windows/SCSI interface is not the most robust in the world, and Windows
scripting sucks, IMO.
 
--
Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Berbee Information Networks
Office 262.521.5627

Re: New to TSM

2003-06-11 Thread Mark Cini 
Thanks for all the good info so far.  Here are some more details on our
environment:

We will initially be backing up 22 nodes, all of which will be a mix of
Windows NT and 2000 file servers.  One will be SQLServer on W2K and one
will be Domino 6 on W2k.  We also want to look at backing up Macintosh
design systems as well as laptops/PCs for power users.  Overall, a total
of about 1T will be backed up with approximately 50-75GB written to tape
daily.  We'd like to keep about 4 to 5 file versions on disk as well. Some
of the nodes are local to the data center but many will be pulled accross
the WAN (frame relay, 512k).  Our local Tivoli rep ran the numbers and
told us it shouldn't be a problem.

We haven't purchased any hardware yet for TSM, as management wants to be
sure we pick the right combination.  I am leaning towards TSM server
running on Win2000 because of our current in-house expertise.

We are excited about the capabilities of TSM combined with an estimated
$100k savings over the next year in hardware replacement costs alone.

Mark Cini
Systems Administrator
CorrFlex Display & Packaging



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I have about 200 nodes (AIX, NT/2000 & Netware) backing up about 200Gig a
night & am using an IBM M80 with 4 3590 E1A's (soon to be 6 H1A's)...

Bruce Kamp

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From: Mark Cini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: New to TSM


Hello all.

We are in the process of ditching our current BackupExec/ArcServe setup in
favor of a central TSM environment.  We have decided to expand our
existing 3494 tape library (additional frame w/ 2 3590 drives, SCSI) but
haven't selected the hardware/operating system for the TSM server.  These
are our options:

Dell 2600/Win2000
pSeries/AIX
iSeries820/PASE

Any recommendations for one system over another for the TSM server?  The
Win2000 option would be the cheapest but would it cause headaches down the
road?

thanks,

Mark Cini
Systems Administrator
CorrFlex Display & Packaging

Re: New to TSM

2003-06-11 Thread Levinson, Donald A. 
I have had the best luck with the AIX systems, they always work.
I prefer using UNIX as a server because of the flexibility for scripting and
control.
Linux x86 is not a viable platform because of the kernel limitations for the
device drivers package.
AIX has the best device coverage of the UNIX platforms.
I currently run an H50 with 4 processors, 3GB of RAM and 200GB of SSA disk.
I really only use 2 processors and 800MB of RAM.
I have an ADIC Scalar 1000 library with 390 slots and 8 IBM LTO1 drives
attached by LVD SCSI
to 3 6205 adapters in the H50. I have about 20TB of data online and another
20TB in my offsite
My TSM database is 20GB with 75% util and my log is 6GB at 8% util.
This system has been bullet proof.

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Hello all.

We are in the process of ditching our current BackupExec/ArcServe setup in
favor of a central TSM environment.  We have decided to expand our
existing 3494 tape library (additional frame w/ 2 3590 drives, SCSI) but
haven't selected the hardware/operating system for the TSM server.  These
are our options:

Dell 2600/Win2000
pSeries/AIX
iSeries820/PASE

Any recommendations for one system over another for the TSM server?  The
Win2000 option would be the cheapest but would it cause headaches down the
road?

thanks,

Mark Cini
Systems Administrator
CorrFlex Display & Packaging


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Re: New to TSM

2003-06-11 Thread Greg Redell 
I am running TSM 5.1.6.2 on Windows 2000 Dell 4400 with about 55 GB per
night change 700 GB+ on weekends (TDP).  This using the standard perc card
and a IBM 3584 w/ 4 LTO1 drives.  This works with our environment.

But I think that everyone would agree that you should base your OS
decision on 1 in house OS knowledge, 2 expected amount of nightly data
backups.

On #1 don't add to the new software experience a new OS.  Go with what you
know if you can.
On #2 Windows for smaller, Unix(Linux), 400, mainframe at the largest.

Greg Redell
Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance Co.
Phone: 314-525-5877
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Hello all.

We are in the process of ditching our current BackupExec/ArcServe setup in
favor of a central TSM environment.  We have decided to expand our
existing 3494 tape library (additional frame w/ 2 3590 drives, SCSI) but
haven't selected the hardware/operating system for the TSM server.  These
are our options:

Dell 2600/Win2000
pSeries/AIX
iSeries820/PASE

Any recommendations for one system over another for the TSM server?  The
Win2000 option would be the cheapest but would it cause headaches down the
road?

thanks,

Mark Cini
Systems Administrator
CorrFlex Display & Packaging

Re: New to TSM

2003-06-11 Thread Kamp, Bruce 
How large of an envirnment are you going to back up?
I have about 200 nodes (AIX, NT/2000 & Netware) backing up about 200Gig a
night & am using an IBM M80 with 4 3590 E1A's (soon to be 6 H1A's)...

Bruce Kamp

-Original Message-
From: Mark Cini [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 5:02 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: New to TSM


Hello all.

We are in the process of ditching our current BackupExec/ArcServe setup in
favor of a central TSM environment.  We have decided to expand our
existing 3494 tape library (additional frame w/ 2 3590 drives, SCSI) but
haven't selected the hardware/operating system for the TSM server.  These
are our options:

Dell 2600/Win2000
pSeries/AIX
iSeries820/PASE

Any recommendations for one system over another for the TSM server?  The
Win2000 option would be the cheapest but would it cause headaches down the
road?

thanks,

Mark Cini
Systems Administrator
CorrFlex Display & Packaging

Re: New to TSM

2003-06-11 Thread Joshua Bassi 
I would say run the TSM server on AIX since u have it in house already.
W2K would be the next choice with the AS/400 being last on the list for
sure.


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Joshua S. Bassi
Tivoli Certified Consultant -ADSM/TSM
eServer Systems Expert -pSeries HACMP
IBM Certified - AIX 4/5L, SAN, Shark
Cell (831) 595-3962

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Hello all.

We are in the process of ditching our current BackupExec/ArcServe setup
in favor of a central TSM environment.  We have decided to expand our
existing 3494 tape library (additional frame w/ 2 3590 drives, SCSI) but
haven't selected the hardware/operating system for the TSM server.
These are our options:

Dell 2600/Win2000
pSeries/AIX
iSeries820/PASE

Any recommendations for one system over another for the TSM server?  The
Win2000 option would be the cheapest but would it cause headaches down
the road?

thanks,

Mark Cini
Systems Administrator
CorrFlex Display & Packaging