Re: SAN vs i5 disk was: Any thoughts on the PowerVM and lx86announcement? -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: SAN vs i5 disk was: Any thoughts on the PowerVM and lx86announcement?
From: "Lukas Beeler" <lukas.beeler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:08:44 +0100
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On Jan 30, 2008 5:04 PM, Chris Bipes <chris.bipes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I would not say no extra hardware, you do need a dedicated NIC. It
should be at least 1GB. The rest is true but even at 1GB you will see

Servers ship with two NICs by default, and Small Businesses usually
don't have a redundant backbone.

back office. The iSeries on a blade would be great for fault tolerance
and clustering the processor while having all the storage on one
redundant SAN. Need more horse power, add a blade.

There are i5/OS applications that support vertical scaling?

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Follow-Ups:

RE: SAN vs i5 disk was: Any thoughts on the PowerVM andlx86announcement? , Chris Bipes
RE: SAN vs i5 disk was: Any thoughts on the PowerVM andlx86announcement? , Crump, Mike

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