What stripe size to use for TSM DB, LOG

2002-10-02 Thread Kilchenmann Timo
Dear all, From a previous threat I learned, that TSM fills a DB volume an than goes to the next one. Same is true for the LOG volumes - no load balancing like on STG Volumes via client sessions. In this case (DB LOG) I plan to use AIX LVM to stripe the logical volumes over the available

Re: What stripe size to use for TSM DB, LOG

2002-10-02 Thread Andrew Carlson
I played with this at one time, with 6 36GB SSA disks. I found the smallest stripe size (4K) worked the best. I cut 50% of my DB backup time going from 128K to 4k stripe size. I saw little or no observable difference for my client backups, but that machine has other resource issues that may

Re: What stripe size to use for TSM DB, LOG

2002-10-02 Thread Seay, Paul
Stripe size is very hardware dependent. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon Inc. 757-688-8180 -Original Message- From: Kilchenmann Timo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 11:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: What stripe size to use for TSM DB

Re: What stripe size to use for TSM DB, LOG

2002-10-02 Thread Roger Deschner
size is very hardware dependent. Paul D. Seay, Jr. Technical Specialist Naptheon Inc. 757-688-8180 -Original Message- From: Kilchenmann Timo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 11:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: What stripe size to use for TSM DB, LOG Dear