Re: Performance and migration: AIX vs Linux

2009-10-27 Thread Remco Post
On 27 okt 2009, at 01:09, Steven Harris wrote: Allen, I see your point on the hardware side, but what about all the various flaky driver issues with Linux. Would it be reasonable to consider Intel/Solaris to get an industrial strength OS on commodity hardware? and you thought that

Re: Performance and migration: AIX vs Linux

2009-10-27 Thread Allen S. Rout
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:09:05 +1100, Steven Harris st...@stevenharris.info said: Would it be reasonable to consider Intel/Solaris to get an industrial strength OS on commodity hardware? Meh, Solaris. also-ran? Solaran.. ? I know that's blasphemy in some circles, but Sun is not even a

Re: Performance and migration: AIX vs Linux

2009-10-27 Thread Steven Langdale
: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject Re: [ADSM-L] Performance and migration: AIX vs Linux Caterpillar: Confidential Green Retain Until: 26/11/2009 Allen, I see your point on the hardware side, but what about all the various flaky driver issues

Re: Performance and migration: AIX vs Linux

2009-10-27 Thread Zoltan Forray/AC/VCU
driver folks caught up. Now they supply the tape drivers as source and you do an rpmbuild. From: Steven Langdale steven.langd...@cat.com To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Date: 10/27/2009 01:47 PM Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Performance and migration: AIX vs Linux Sent by: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager ADSM-L

Re: Performance and migration: AIX vs Linux

2009-10-26 Thread Allen S. Rout
On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:57:20 +0330, Mehdi Salehi iranian.aix.supp...@gmail.com said: According to IBM, AIX outperforms Linux on the same box between 5% to 10%. Maturity, flexibility and reliability of AIX and POWER architecture in my opinion make it a far better choice for such a

Re: Performance and migration: AIX vs Linux

2009-10-26 Thread Steven Harris
Allen, I see your point on the hardware side, but what about all the various flaky driver issues with Linux. Would it be reasonable to consider Intel/Solaris to get an industrial strength OS on commodity hardware? Where's AIX for Intel when you need it! Regards Steve Steven Harris AIX and

Re: Performance and migration: AIX vs Linux

2009-10-24 Thread Remco Post
challenges. Once and for all. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Zarnowski Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 12:43 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Performance and migration: AIX vs Linux Kelly, At 11:27 AM 10/23

Re: Performance and migration: AIX vs Linux

2009-10-23 Thread Remco Post
On 23 okt 2009, at 00:13, Dury, John C. wrote: We are currently running TSM server v5530 under AIX. The AIX server has a mixture of different speed (266mhz and 133mhz, both 64bit) PCI- X slots. With 4 4g HBAs. Our system is connected to a Clariion CX3-80 where the TSM DB and Recovery Log and

Re: Performance and migration: AIX vs Linux

2009-10-23 Thread Mehdi Salehi
According to IBM, AIX outperforms Linux on the same box between 5% to 10%. Maturity, flexibility and reliability of AIX and POWER architecture in my opinion make it a far better choice for such a critical service. (I am not against Intel) I wonder why you don't configure lan-free scenario instead

Re: Performance and migration: AIX vs Linux

2009-10-23 Thread Jerry Michalak
of SAN disks for all of the TSM servers after that. Jerry Michalak jerry_...@yahoo.com From: Dury, John C. jd...@duqlight.com To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Sent: Thu, October 22, 2009 5:13:23 PM Subject: [ADSM-L] Performance and migration: AIX vs Linux We

Re: Performance and migration: AIX vs Linux

2009-10-23 Thread Shawn Drew
# IMNSHO, IBM pSeries hardware is the best there is for large I/O # workloads. I've seen AIX do things that Linux wouldn't survive. I've always wondered about this. We have p570s and we can throw anything at them, and they won't even breath hard. But if you spent $100K on p-series, and $100K on

Re: Performance and migration: AIX vs Linux

2009-10-23 Thread Richard Sims
On Oct 23, 2009, at 4:27 AM, Mehdi Salehi wrote: According to IBM, AIX outperforms Linux on the same box between 5% to 10%. ... Well, there is a single AIX product, but many versions of Linux (unfortunately). Without a citation for the claim, it's not clear that the assertion is true. A

Re: Performance and migration: AIX vs Linux

2009-10-23 Thread Kelly Lipp
. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Shawn Drew Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 8:58 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Performance and migration: AIX vs Linux # IMNSHO, IBM pSeries hardware is the best there is for large I/O

Re: Performance and migration: AIX vs Linux

2009-10-23 Thread Paul Zarnowski
Kelly, At 11:27 AM 10/23/2009, Kelly Lipp wrote: If one reads the IBM documentation on the latest x3850/x3950 M2 one will observe that the data paths within that architecture are actually faster than in the latest pSeries hardware. I'm curious - does your analysis include the number of busses

Re: Performance and migration: AIX vs Linux

2009-10-23 Thread Kelly Lipp
Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Zarnowski Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 12:43 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Performance and migration: AIX vs Linux Kelly, At 11:27 AM 10/23/2009, Kelly Lipp wrote: If one reads the IBM

Re: Performance and migration: AIX vs Linux

2009-10-23 Thread Kelly Lipp
STORServer solves your data backup challenges. Once and for all. -Original Message- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Zarnowski Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 12:43 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Performance and migration: AIX

Re: Performance and migration: AIX vs Linux

2009-10-23 Thread Paul Zarnowski
Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Zarnowski Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 12:43 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Performance and migration: AIX vs Linux Kelly, At 11:27 AM 10/23/2009, Kelly Lipp wrote: If one reads the IBM documentation on the latest x3850/x3950

Re: Performance and migration: AIX vs Linux

2009-10-23 Thread Kelly Lipp
] On Behalf Of Paul Zarnowski Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 2:48 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Performance and migration: AIX vs Linux I didn't read the whole thing, but it looks like there are only 7 I/O slots? Does it have RIO drawers similar to the higher end pSeries

Performance and migration: AIX vs Linux

2009-10-22 Thread Dury, John C.
We are currently running TSM server v5530 under AIX. The AIX server has a mixture of different speed (266mhz and 133mhz, both 64bit) PCI-X slots. With 4 4g HBAs. Our system is connected to a Clariion CX3-80 where the TSM DB and Recovery Log and Disk Storage pools live. The disk parts of TSM

Re: Performance and migration: AIX vs Linux

2009-10-22 Thread Xav Paice
- John C. Dury jd...@duqlight.com wrote: 1.How hard is it to move from an AIX TSM server box to a Linux TSM server? I'm hoping it's as easy as building the new box (tape drive,stg pool etc) and then restoring the DB and tweaking the new config. I know there is more to it than