We did the same. Installed RedHat 5.3 on a fresh server with 2-mirrored
400GB SAS drives for the OS/DB/Logs and 8-1TB drives for the LZ.

While the install went without incident, the numerous problems with 6.1
have totally deterred us from making this a production system.  We are
eagerly waiting for 6.1.2 (and of course, the latest DB2) to see if we can
make this system usable.

The biggest headache we stumbled upon was the issue with the
transaction-archive logs (see my previous post about the requirements for
3-FULL DB backups).  This totally blew-away the space on the 400GB
filesystem.  Never had these problem with V5.x

This box is connected to the SAN to use the 6-TS1120 and 6-TS1130 drives
in our 3494, as a library client.  So far we have not seen any incidents
related to interaction with our 5-TSM 5.5.2.1 servers.



From:
"Gill, Geoffrey L." <GEOFFREY.L.GILL AT SAIC DOT COM>
To:
ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date:
07/07/2009 02:27 PM
Subject:
[ADSM-L] TSM6.1 on Linux
Sent by:
"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>



For those that tested 6.1 in a Linux environment I'm looking for any
problems you had. During my testing on AIX and Windows I had failures
during the installation which were always DB2 related. I'm getting ready
to bring up TSM on a Linux box and am looking for your experience. This
is a new installation not an upgrade. This is a test but I really want
to get a working environment up as quickly and easily as possible. In
the end I will blow this away and bring it up on an IBM p series box
running Linux which will hopefully be just as easy but for now this is
just a test on a blade I was given till the other hardware arrives.



I will direct 2 LTO2 drives to this box from the 3584 along with a VTL
that is coming in this week. Learning Linux from scratch so I really
have no idea how these devices are even found. I have SAN disk displayed
for DB and I need to figure out how to get all that set up too,
unfortunately it's not something I've figured out. I can tap some other
Linux resources here for help with that I hope. I'm taking notes on what
I've done with specific commands since I certainly won't remember it
tomorrow. I really hate asking for documents others have put together
but in this case, since I'm being pressured to get this going, I
certainly would appreciate anything others have put together if anyone
may have something already.



Thanks for any info you can provide.



Geoff Gill
TSM Administrator
PeopleSoft Sr. Systems Administrator
SAIC M/S-B1P
(858)826-4062 (office)

(858)412-9883 (blackberry)
Email: geoffrey.l.gill AT saic DOT com