Re: NFS export and Tivoli Storage Manager

We are using TSM on the i5.  But it's a dead end road.  TSM is a great 
product, it's just that IBM is dropping i5/os as a platform for it.  The 
last version supported on i5/os only runs under PASE.  We have TSM 5.2.4 
but I really think they stopped supporting TSM 5.2.2 on i5/OS.  If you 
want to go past 5.2.2 on the i5 IBM suggests that you load it on a Linux 
or AIX partition.  But, if you want to shell out the bucks for the right 
package deal with a new i5 TSM is part of that package deal - go figure.
Sad, but more of our disk space is used up by TSM and Domino on our i5/570 
than all of our BPCS, Unicorn/HRO, etc databases combined.  Heck ERP, 
accounting and OS combined only suck up about 9% of our disk space. Really 
bites that IBM is pushing other os's instead of i5/OS.

Another problem with TSM under PASE is that PASE really cripples the 
performance of TSM.  Under native i5/os operations we get 3-4 times the 
speed of tape operations that we do under TSM under PASE.  IBM says that 
the PASE tape api's are the performance bottle neck.

Rob Berendt