Re: 10GB Ethernet Cards

[Sam_L <lennon_s_j@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Appreciate all the comments for everyone.

I asked our BP and they said: "The 10GBe is not a valid feature for the 
9408-M25."

I also played around with a monitor as suggested and utilization seems 
to be about 1%.  I sent a 600 mb IFS file via Mimix to bhe backup book 
and it spiked to 4% for a couple of minutes.  I need to some more 
monitoring to be sure I'm doing it right and I want to see what happens 
tonight with batch.

The back up box is several states away in a managed data center.  It 
looked at the line from the green screen side today and it is set to 
*AUTO but the current rate was 100mb. It's an older 520 but has the same 
5706 IOA.

Right now I'm leaning on telling the boss not to worry about an upgrade.

Sam

On 8/27/2012 5:58 PM, Sam_L wrote:
> Hardware, and communications, are not my strong point...
>
> However, I've been asked if we can go to 10GB Ethernet on our iSeries.
> It is an M25 and we are at V7R1.  We currently have two 1G Ethernet
> cards. We don't do any SNA (I hope.)
>
> Couple of questions:
>
> 1) As far as I can tell, we have an 5706 IOA which will support 10GB. If
> you know anything to the contrary, please tell.
>
> 2) What is a ball park price for a 10GB card for the iSeries.
>
> 3) Any "gotchas" come to mind?
>
> Thanks,  Sam