Re: TSM 5.4 or 6.1

2009-10-10 Thread John D. Schneider
Mehdi, Yes, I think you need to plan on using the same client and server version in a LAN-free situation. So now the only question that remains then is, whether AIX 5.2 is necessary, or whether you could upgrade to a new AIX version. That will decide your choices of TSM version. By the

Re: TSM 5.4 or 6.1

2009-10-10 Thread Mehdi Salehi
Thanks About using different TSM versions in client and server I should mention one of the requirments for this client is LAN-free and TDP. So, as far as I know, clients should be the same version as server.

Re: TSM 5.4 or 6.1

2009-10-10 Thread John D. Schneider
Mehdi, I forgot to speak to your second solution. If you read the ADSM-L listserv regularly, you will probably know that customers are still having significant problems in TSM 6.1. Unless you really need a 6.1 feature and just can't wait, you are probably better off staying on the more stable v

Re: TSM 5.4 or 6.1

2009-10-10 Thread John D. Schneider
As Richard said, AIX 5.2 is out of support, and 5.3 won't be in support forever. I work in Healthcare, where vendors are usually very slow to get off older OS versions, so a customer can't always choose their OS, they are bound by the support issues of the vendor. Just this past year we finally g

Re: TSM 5.4 or 6.1

2009-10-10 Thread Richard Sims
An obvious, major consideration for your customer is that AIX 5.2 is out of support: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/support/systemsp/lifecycle/ This may leave them at jeopardy for security problems, and make it difficult to add new hardware. Richard Sims On Oct 10, 2009, at 9:04 AM, Mehdi Sal

Re: TSM 5.4 or 6.1

2009-10-10 Thread David Longo
How about the point that AIX 5.2 is sort of history? David Longo >>> Mehdi Salehi 10/10/2009 9:04 AM >>> One of our customers is planning to buy TSM for their AIX 5.2 systems. The problem is that the newest version of TSM what supports AIX 5.2 is TSM 5.4. Two solutions: - upgrade AIX systems t

TSM 5.4 or 6.1

2009-10-10 Thread Mehdi Salehi
One of our customers is planning to buy TSM for their AIX 5.2 systems. The problem is that the newest version of TSM what supports AIX 5.2 is TSM 5.4. Two solutions: - upgrade AIX systems to 5.3 or 6.1 - forget about TSM 6.1 and use TSM 5.4 You know the application side people are unwilling to mov

restoring JFS2 image backup to another version of AIX

2009-10-10 Thread Mehdi Salehi
Hi, Anybody tried to restore a JFS2 image backup from AIX 5.3 to AIX 6.1? (I know an AIX 5.2 JFS2 image cannot be restored on AIX 6.1) Thanks