I never thought about it in terms of the pared down drivers, but that makes
alot of sense. On our IXSs we have had WAY fewer of the intermittent
glitches/crashes/blue screens/reboots that we see occasionally with the 6
other standalone x-Series boxes we have running.
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Exactly. To your point of reliability one of the biggies for IXS is
that the number of driver issues is essentially *zero. IBM tests all
possible combinations of the one video driver, one LAN driver, and one
Disk driver. (Let's see that's um, one?!) They can test the dickens out
of that and assure that they all work in harmony. Go to external stuff
and the potential combinations are legion. Plus the are purpose built
reliable hardware living inside a well cooled and reliably powered
cabinet It don't get much better than that.
When you consider the average Intel CPU putzes along at 4% busy the fact
that they only come in 2Ghz models is nearly a 'so what'.
- Larry
Jones, John (US) wrote:
No backups to manage. No server hardware to manage. No disks to manage,
RAID to rebuild, etc. No footprint/power/HVAC to manage in the rack. No
maintenance contract to maintain. No physical cabling required (can VLAN &
use host iSeries LAN).
They're just simpler to deal with.
I'd add that for some reason the IXS cards seem to be less likely to lock
up or suffer other quirks than regular servers. The first one I had, for
instance, was a 233MHz Pentium 2 with 256MB RAM running NT 4. Rock solid;
would stay up for months on end with no problems at all. The current IXS
models seem to be just as reliable when running Server 2003.
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