You may consider splitting the load into two TSM servers or instances. Depending on the type of clients/files/load you may even need to go further and get p670/p690 to handle the burden. Or to use several p650/p630 without LPar-ring. Do your sizing carefully, change later might be a painful process.
Zlatko Krastev IT Consultant Tae Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08.10.2003 03:20 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject: Re: p650 with TSM anyone using it? Backing up 2300 servers with about 700,000,000 files. Nightmare to size just the sizing of the DB is driving crazy.... -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Talafous, John G. Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 5:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: p650 with TSM anyone using it? How many clients do you NEED to backup? We run a p650 with: 8 1.45GHZ processors 16GB memory 6 3590-H drives 2.4TB external disk cache 4x146GB internal disks for 2 AIX instances 8x76GB internal disks for TSM DB and Logs 2 IBM 2109 32 port Fibre switches 14 fibre HBA's We recently moved to this hardware and are backing up close to 500 application servers (Windoze, Unix, AIX, etc) and almost 2000 workstations (only the My Documents folder(s)). Our intent is to partition and separate the Application Servers from Workstations. I really want two physical servers in different locations so that they can backup each other. This is a step in that direction. The machine screams!!! John G. Talafous IS Technical Principal The Timken Company Global Software Support P.O. Box 6927 Data Management 1835 Dueber Ave. S.W. Phone: (330)-471-3390 Canton, Ohio USA 44706-0927 Fax : (330)-471-4034 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.timken.com