You're preachin' to the choir man !! :-)
I am and always will be a staunch one-box "i" supporter where realistic.
Unfortunately the "i" is not always the best performer when it comes to
running Jasper Reports and other CPU intensive Java apps. In fact the
Bladecenter muddies the issue even more because you will have one box
that runs all your apps. It will just contain Windows, Linux, "i" or
AIX OS partitions/blades.
Whether we like it or not, the one box scenario in general is a thing of
the past. Consolidated Blades running workload appropriate apps are the
future !!
On the topic of management, one user can manage a BladeCenter or several
Vmware servers quite nicely. However there is definitely an expertise
learning curve.
Regards,
Richard Schoen
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message: 4
date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 16:33:01 +0200
from: john e <jacobus1968@xxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: [WEB400] What's the latest thinking of the best two
or
threewebdevelopment languages/environ...
Richard wrote:
The point of this whole comment. Don't shy away from .Net or Java
technologies because you may have a two server environment. Most of
the
time the web server simply runs the web code, but the database still
stays on the "i". Not a bad tradeoff since a web apps code is usually
a
few megs. It's all about the database !!
One the advantages of having an as/400 is that you only need one box.
This box runs the application and the database. It's also very scalable,
this one box, and it can support 1000's of users.
If you split the app server and the db server into two boxes then you
have a bottleneck, i.e. the communication of data between these two
boxes. So you have to take this into account when designing your
application. And if you have lots of users you maybe have to put another
windows web application into the mix. Making it all complicated and
difficult to manage. Windows is not powerful enough to support a
database and application server on one box. The as/400 is designed for
this. There is no I/O bottleneck between the applications and the db.
midrange.com
