HI all, after long working with ADSM/TSM and migrating from Solaris to AIX about 9 years ago, we are now asked to refresh our hardware again. It came out that our old backup server are the only AIX server we still have and we should thinking about migrating to linux. I'm not real happy about it, but I think that it will work. I have some more doubts about the hardware we should use. I know that we should have a lot of disks for the database, but our databases aren't very big (the biggest is about 400 GByte) and to get small disks is difficult. At the moment we have an AIX server with an external storage (DS3500) with a lot of disks. The plans are to migrate to a HP DL380 system with internal disks. The database should be on SSDs so we are not sure if we still should use a lot of disks, or if it makes sense to use only 2 or 4 disks mirrored with a spare disk, or if it might be useful to use Raid5. Has anybody experiences with it, please. The documentation I found about this is in my eyes not up to date and so I'm asking this group now, for their experiences about this. It will be also fine, if somebody did such a migration already. I read about export and import the database from AIX to Linux. Has somebody do this, please. How did it work?
many thanks in advanced regards Michael Stahlberg
