Hello Rajesh As others will no doubt chime in, a 5.4 to 5.5 upgrade is VERY easy.
As for version to go to, I went with the latest I could download (getting downtime here is difficult) Apart from making sure you have good copies of volhist/devconfig/DRM prepare I tend to do my last DB backup to devtype=file for the fastest recovery Steven "Lakshminarayanan, Rajesh" <rajesh.lakshminaraya...@dfs.com> Sent by: "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> 28/09/2010 05:06 Please respond to "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU> To ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU cc Subject [ADSM-L] TSM SERVER upgrade from 5.4.1.2 --> 5.5 Caterpillar: Confidential Green Retain Until: 28/10/2010 Hi Guys, I have plans to upgrade my TSM server from 5.4 version to 5.5. Please share your views about this version upgrade and which is the optimal level I should upgrade to (i.e. 5.5.x.x). I am doing this upgrade as we have future plans to move to 6.2 version. My current TSM environment is Platform: AIX 5.3 TL 10 Server hardware: power 5 52A (4 GB RAM), Attached to DS4700 through SAN switch. TSM server version: 5.4.1.2 TSM client version: some at 5.4 & 5.5 version. Regards, Rajesh