Hi all,

I am currently in the process of setting up specifications for our new TSM6.2 
server.  

I started by adding 8 x SSD 50GB disks to hold OS and DB, but because of the 
high costs was wondering if it's possible to rather buy more RAM and increase 
the DB2 cache to speed up the database.

Currently I have RAM set at 24GB but its way cheaper doubling the RAM than to 
buy 8 x SSD's
Currently I have 8 x SSD vs 6 x SAS 15K 

Any ideas?
Louw Pretorius                   

-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Shawn Drew
Sent: 16 November 2010 23:04
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM5.5/AIX61 Performance Monitoring

Looking for some tips on performance monitoring.  I've been through the tuning 
guide, but I'm looking for monitoring CPU/Memory, HBA usage, disk/tape 
performance, etc.

I'm wondering what are the favorite tools on this list.   From what I can
gather nmon doesn't collect tape drive data, which is one of my major interests.

I need to collect historical data for long term trends.  Does anyone know if 
you can keep topas output in single, periodic snapshots like nmon?


Regards,
Shawn
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Shawn Drew


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