Anyone have their TSM server on a SUN T5440 or have plans to do so? -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Remco Post Sent: Tuesday, March 03, 2009 3:06 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Servers supported on virtual machines--anything new?
On 3 mrt 2009, at 19:36, Lindsay Morris wrote: > We run TSM 5.4 on a Linux VM under VMware. It's just for our test lab > so we don't have any stressful throughout stats to report, but it > works fine. There is no problem running TSM in a VM, as Lindsay reported. There are however limitations, for instance VMWare can't currently expose FC HBA's or FC tape drives to a VM, so you can't use FC tape drives. IIRC in xen this must be possible, because a domU can (but usually doesn't) directly drive an HBA. Quite a few organisations run TSM on a pSeries LPAR. In all cases of course you must keep in mind that large TSM servers doe a huge amount of I/O, require lots of memory and quite a bit of CPU, making them not the best candidates for virtualization. -- Met vriendelijke groeten/Kind regards Remco Post r.p...@plcs.nl +31 6 24821 622
