We recently had an IBM presentation on the future of TSM. The presenter told us that Operations Center was going to change our minds about needing a third party management facility for TSM (we currently use TSMManager). My management has asked me to check on the requirements for installing Operations Center. I found an IBM tool for estimating Operations Center resource requirements at:
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21641684&aid=1 I requested estimates for a configuration with Operations Center on a separate server. The Operations Center host is predicted to need a tenth of a processor core. Each TSM instance is predicted to need at least one processor core to support the Operations Center. The estimate for the hub instance sometimes reaches 1.1 cores, depending on the estimates of administrator activity levels. We have three production TSM server instances (one of them a dedicated library manager) split across two z10 systems with two IFL's each. The predictions from the IBM tool imply that interaction with the Operations Center will consume all of the processor capacity on the system with the library manager and half of the processor capacity on the other system. Are the estimates from the IBM tool reasonably accurate? Thomas Denier Thomas Jefferson University The information contained in this transmission contains privileged and confidential information. It is intended only for the use of the person named above. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, dissemination, distribution or duplication of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. CAUTION: Intended recipients should NOT use email communication for emergent or urgent health care matters.
