Not all servers. iSeries 520 and up have two NIC's but not all servers
have two NIC's by default.


Chris Bipes
Director of I.S.
CrossCheck, Inc.

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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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