RE: iSeries and Sans

["Graap, Kenneth" <keg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'll agree with Mr. Barsa on this (maybe not the hooker part...) The best SAN 
for the iSeries is the iSeries disk subsystem itself. There is no advantage to 
be gained attaching an iSeries to an external SAN (IMHO) ... Now, attaching 
blade servers or IXA servers to the iSeries and utilizing it's storage as a SAN 
... That has merit.



Kenneth

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Al Barsa
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 7:59 PM
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Subject: Re: iSeries and SANs


IBM is not capable of diagnosis problems i ( *ANYONE's) SAN as well as
internal DASD.

I also had a 100 customer that tuned a SAN into 2TB of boat anchor, which I
recovered last spring.

It might be too attractive but I'd rather have sex with an unprotected
hooker.

Al

Al Barsa, Jr.
Barsa Consulting Group, LLC

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I am curious to know if anyone is using an iSeries with no (or minimal)
internal disk and connected to a SAN. If connected to a SAN how are you
doing backups. We have been migrating our Intel servers to blades and
SAN and are now looking at getting a second SAN full of cheap disk to
place in another building, connected over fiber, and do snapshot
backups. And even talking about (slight shiver) not doing tape backups.
We know of a few places that have done this but none use iSeries. Anyone
with a real life experience in this area who has anything good or bad to
say about this concept?

Thanks

Mike Cunningham
Pennsylvania College of Technology
www.pct.edu
mcunning@xxxxxxx
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