Re: Promoting i5!

["Trevor Perry" <tperry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In the last month, I have configured an i5 520 with six IXS (plus one hot 
spare) and two xSeries servers in the same tower with IXA. No i5/OS 
applications will be run. Their expertise on iSeries operations and 
management, plus the ability to have HA with hot spare, etc. etc. means it 
is very cost effective. Even with a tower and expansion towers for the IXS, 
and even with the cost of the iSeries disk, this solution competes very well 
with an equivalent set of Intel servers with VMWare and all the other 
software to manage the systems. There is less Windows management - things 
like defrag are gone - and there is only one point of backup - the iSeries. 
And one more advantage. If we wish to replace some of the servers that are 
simple file servers, we can use Linux on Power and less IXS.

I do not know about the OpenPower server compared to this, since we had a 
great iSeries skill set to utilize and the costs were comparable to the 
Intel solution...

----- Original Message ----- 
> Trevor,
>
> Ditto all your points and I'd like to question the following:
>
> Would the i5 really be the server to recommend if a customer has _no_ i5 
> OS workload?
>
> I suppose you can run the i5 without an i5/OS partition, but you certainly 
> can't buy one (new) without paying for a i5/OS license, right?
>
> I think the OpenPower servers would have been a better recommendation. 
> Too bad you can't have an IxA or IxS Windows server with the OpenPower 
> boxes...or can you?
>
>
> Charles Wilt