Re: multiple instance recommendations

2006-05-29 Thread Robin Sharpe
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Re: multiple instance recommendations

2006-05-28 Thread Steven Harris
Robin, If I recall correctly a while back you were stuck with having to keep everything forever. Is that still the case and is that why your database got to 530GB? If it is still the case I'd be interested in how you handle this, problems encountered and so on. Regards Steven Harris AIX and

Re: multiple instance recommendations

2006-05-27 Thread Allen S. Rout
>> On Fri, 26 May 2006 22:43:04 -0400, Robin Sharpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > One other recommendation, which I did... do not run all of your TSM > instances as root (you are on Unix , right?). Doing so, if you do a > "ps -ef|grep dsmserv" command, you can't tell which process belongs > to whic

Re: multiple instance recommendations

2006-05-26 Thread Robin Sharpe
I just did this about a month ago... first the "why": My single TSM database had grown to its architectural limit: 530GB. I had no choice other than splitting TSM into multiple instances (well, I could have "frozen" the big TSM and started over... and we actually ended up doing that also... but m

Re: multiple instance recommendations

2006-05-22 Thread Andy Huebner
With 200M files and only 7TB you must have many small files. To guess at how many objects will be in your DB you could use the file count from an incremental backup. Just multiply by your retention and add the base count. For comparison purposes I have 149M objects in a 71% used 94GB DB. The so

Re: multiple instance recommendations

2006-05-22 Thread Allen S. Rout
>> On Mon, 22 May 2006 11:57:20 -0500, Dave Mussulman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 10:05:38PM -0400, Allen S. Rout wrote: > I don't have a lot of a priori knowledge of TSM, so any sizing > recommendations I've seen have come from the Performance Guides, > interviews with a f

Re: multiple instance recommendations

2006-05-22 Thread Dave Mussulman
On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 10:05:38PM -0400, Allen S. Rout wrote: > > I have questions about server sizing and scaling. I'm planning to > > transition from Networker to TSM a client pool of around 300 clients, > > with the last full backup being about 7TB and almost 200M files. The > > TSM server pl

Re: multiple instance recommendations

2006-05-19 Thread Allen S. Rout
>> On Fri, 19 May 2006 15:13:10 -0500, Dave Mussulman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I have questions about server sizing and scaling. I'm planning to > transition from Networker to TSM a client pool of around 300 clients, > with the last full backup being about 7TB and almost 200M files. The > TS