Upgrading TSM server from Q9650 Core 2 Quad 3.0GHz, 8GB DDR2 on Win 2008R2.

New system is HP Z600, two-socket, 6-core 2.66GHz Xeon X5650 and 48GB of RAM. Wattage is the same per socket, but two sockets now. 3x the cores, 4x the performance.

SSDs for DB and Log are also moving to EVO 850 from Corsair M100. I’ll set up a container pool to replace the dedupe file class, and put that on 3x 3TB RAID5 instead of 2x RAID1.

OS will be Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS. I’d like to just use Debian 9.1, but Debian and long-term-support seem to not be synonymous. I’d hate to run a patch update and have everything break, then fight with debian testing repo to try to get it all back to normal. Plus, I have no Ubuntu boxes, only Debian. It’ll give me a chance to see what operational differences I run into.

Old TSM is 6.4. New will be “Spectrum Protect” 8.1.3. Yes, the billions spent to rebrand to the same name as Charter Cable’s rebrand really seems like money well spent.

Anyway, Since I lost the offsite replication provider for the dedupe file pool, and it was having trouble keeping up anyway, this will let me change to server-side encryption, and object storage. We’ll see which provider wins out on price once everything is rededuped properly.

If the fan noise is not too bad, maybe this platform can be considered for a low-cost upgrade to the kids’ game machines. Though, these are heavy, with 2 big handles on the top.

Also, really, something new enough to have USB3 on the motherboard is probably better. I have some laptops picked out, but that’s re-buying every component, including ones that are presently decent. *sigh*