Are you backing up your AIX systems over Virtual Ethernet adapters? Of course you are, who isn’t right? Are your backup server and clients on the same physical POWER system? You are most likely backing up over Virtual Ethernet to another AIX LPAR that is running your enterprise backup software, such as TSM or Legato Networker for example. And you probably have a dedicated private virtual network (and adapters) on both the clients and the server to handle the traffic for the nightly backups. The next question is, have you tuned your... [More]

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