No, our TSM server is one of the few servers we run that has its own iron. It's a dual 2GHz Xeon, 2.5G RAM, RHEL 3.0, DB on local 15k RPM RAID 1, disk pools on SAN (RAID 5 array, 10k RPM).
-Ken -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Timothy Lin Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 10:35 AM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Journaling/Linux That's very good performance, out of curiosity, is your TSM server also running on top of VM ? I know VM instances can talk to each other over the memory instead of over the net Tim. Mueller, Ken wrote: >The file server is a virtual machine on one of our ESX servers. The VM is a >single processor (2.5GHz Xeon), 768M RAM - SAN storage controlled by a >FAStT700. > >The secret ingredient may lie in the often shunned 'memoryefficient yes' in >the client's dsm.opt. >-Ken > >-----Original Message----- >From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of >Troy Frank >Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 1:18 PM >To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU >Subject: Re: Journaling/Linux > >Ditto. on one of our bigger file servers, ~1.3million files, 2-cpu >2.4ghz, 2.5GB RAM, SAN attached storage (that gets ~100MB/sec >throughput), it take us 45min to get through a backup. This seems to be >almost 20X that fast. > > > >
