I'd be more worried about database I/O bandwidth. Expiration and deduplication are going to hammer the database. All the usual rules apply, such as avoiding RAID5, using your fastest disks, using striping, not overloading any one bus, controller, or drive. If you have any of these bottlenecks then adding more cores cannot improve performance. Poor database disk I/O can kill a TSM system, regardless of its CPU resources. If you've got the budget for it, think about using solid state storage for the TSM database in order to support multiple expiration and deduplication processes.
Roger Deschner University of Illinois at Chicago rog...@uic.edu "Fine, Java MIGHT be a good example of what a programming language should be like. But Java applications are good examples of what applications SHOULDN'T be like." - pixadel On Tue, 11 Jan 2011, Schneider, Jim wrote: >Good morning, TSM fans! > >I'm building an AIX 6 TL4 server to run TSM Server 6.2.2.0. The >Performance Tuning manual tells me I need one core per expiration or >deduplication process. How many processors are you folks using, and >does additional processing power have a significant benefit? > >Thanks in advance, >Jim Schneider >
