We run RedHat exclusively (for Linux - all other *NIX are SUN boxes) and
ALL of our TSM servers are RH4 or above using fibre-attached TS1120/1130
drives.
There used to be issue with the IBM supplied tape drivers being kernel
level dependent and we had to hold back on updating the OS until IBM
Steve Raises a good point. I've not used TSM on Linux for a couple of
years now, but I do remember plenty of tape driver issues.
For those who have used it more recently, is it better? (btw Redhat Only
shop here)
Thanks
Steven
Steven Langdale
Global Information Services
EAME SAN/Storage Plan
>> On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:09:05 +1100, Steven Harris
>> said:
> Would it be reasonable to consider Intel/Solaris to get an
> industrial strength OS on commodity hardware?
Meh, Solaris. also-ran? Solaran.. ? I know that's blasphemy in some
circles, but Sun is not even a shadow of what it on
On 27 okt 2009, at 01:09, Steven Harris wrote:
Allen,
I see your point on the hardware side, but what about all the various
flaky driver issues with Linux. Would it be reasonable to consider
Intel/Solaris to get an industrial strength OS on commodity hardware?
and you thought that solarisX86
Allen,
I see your point on the hardware side, but what about all the various
flaky driver issues with Linux. Would it be reasonable to consider
Intel/Solaris to get an industrial strength OS on commodity hardware?
Where's AIX for Intel when you need it!
Regards
Steve
Steven Harris
AIX and TSM
>> On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:57:20 +0330, Mehdi Salehi
>> said:
> According to IBM, AIX outperforms Linux on the same box between 5%
> to 10%. Maturity, flexibility and reliability of AIX and POWER
> architecture in my opinion make it a far better choice for such a
> critical service. (I am not a
On 23 okt 2009, at 21:46, Kelly Lipp wrote:
I found it!
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpapers/pdfs/redp4362.pdf
Actually a fairly fun read. Way cool technology. I'm sure it will
show up in the pSeries soon anyway so the hardware issues become
further blurred.
I's good to know that at leas
Seven slots, but you can stack up to four servers to get to 28 slots.
Kelly Lipp
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I didn't read the whole thing, but it looks like there are only 7 I/O slots?
Does it have RIO drawers similar to the higher end pSeries?
At 03:46 PM 10/23/2009, Kelly Lipp wrote:
>I found it!
>
>http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpapers/pdfs/redp4362.pdf
>
>Actually a fairly fun read. Way cool tech
I found it!
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpapers/pdfs/redp4362.pdf
Actually a fairly fun read. Way cool technology. I'm sure it will show up in
the pSeries soon anyway so the hardware issues become further blurred.
Kelly Lipp
Chief Technical Officer
www.storserver.com
719-266-8777 x7105
STOR
Paul,
Yes, the bus structures are similar and in the x M2 variants faster. I just
attempted to lay my hands on a the technical paper I read about this to no
avail and I'm struggling to recreate the search I used to find it originally.
When I went after that is was my intent to confirm that th
Kelly,
At 11:27 AM 10/23/2009, Kelly Lipp wrote:
>If one reads the IBM documentation on the latest x3850/x3950 M2 one will
>observe that the data paths within that architecture are actually faster than
>in the latest pSeries hardware.
I'm curious - does your analysis include the number of busse
I studied this in some detail as it obviously comes up often in my practice.
If one reads the IBM documentation on the latest x3850/x3950 M2 one will
observe that the data paths within that architecture are actually faster than
in the latest pSeries hardware. That said, Windows or Linux ineffi
On Oct 23, 2009, at 4:27 AM, Mehdi Salehi wrote:
According to IBM, AIX outperforms Linux on the same box between 5%
to 10%. ...
Well, there is a single AIX product, but many versions of Linux
(unfortunately). Without a citation for the claim, it's not clear
that the assertion is true. A furt
# IMNSHO, IBM pSeries hardware is the best there is for large I/O
# workloads. I've seen AIX do things that Linux wouldn't survive.
I've always wondered about this. We have p570s and we can throw anything
at them, and they won't even breath hard.
But if you spent $100K on p-series, and $100K on
I had a similar setup about 2 years ago and ran into some throughput problems
also.
First, you need to measure the speed of tape output when doing migrations,
disk-to-tape, and some sort of tape-to-tape processes. I found with my setup
that I was getting faster transfer speed when doing tape-to
According to IBM, AIX outperforms Linux on the same box between 5% to 10%.
Maturity, flexibility and reliability of AIX and POWER architecture in my
opinion make it a far better choice for such a critical service. (I am not
against Intel)
I wonder why you don't configure lan-free scenario instead
On 23 okt 2009, at 00:13, Dury, John C. wrote:
We are currently running TSM server v5530 under AIX. The AIX server
has a mixture of different speed (266mhz and 133mhz, both 64bit) PCI-
X slots. With 4 4g HBAs. Our system is connected to a Clariion
CX3-80 where the TSM DB and Recovery Log and Dis
- "John C. Dury" wrote:
>
> 1.How hard is it to move from an AIX TSM server box to a Linux
> TSM server? I'm hoping it's as easy as building the new box (tape
> drive,stg pool etc) and then restoring the DB and tweaking the new
> config. I know there is more to it than that but witho
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