RE: iSeries and Sans

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

iSeries backup/recovery provides a great solution for an easy recovery of your 
complete server farm. It can recover all  your Windows Network Storage Areas 
just by restoring the IFS. You reattach your replacement IXA/IXS/Blade servers 
and you are up and running. This sure beats having to recreate a Windows image, 
reinstall the applications and then restore the application data. This level of 
recoverability could go a long way toward justifying the additional cost of an 
iSeries based SAN.

Kenneth

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Subject: RE: iSeries and Sans


> from: "Graap, Kenneth" <keg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> subject: RE: iSeries and Sans
>
> There is no advantage to be gained attaching an iSeries to an 
> external SAN (IMHO) ...

If you have a SAN for another system (mainframe) and the iSeries is 
compatable then the advantage is cheaper disk... it's way cheaper for 
the disk.

> Now, attaching blade servers or IXA 
> servers to the iSeries and utilizing it's storage as a SAN ... 
> That has merit.

If you have a couple of servers this seems like a sensible thing to do 
but once you get some serious storage... Open System SAN, way cheaper 
and just as reliable.