RE: Questions

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Don,

There are many darned good reasons to use the iSeries to host Windows
servers!  I've been doing a study on the feasibility for my company.  Not
only do you have good back up and recovery, but you can create multiple
disk images and point the servers to any combination of images.  This
means that you can run an A/B philosphy where the "A" image is your
current production image.  You can use a spare processor to configure and
test the "B" image.  You can then switch your server from "A" to "B" where
changes are implemented.  "A" remains unchanged.  If a problem ocurs you
simply switch back to "A" and are back to the point you were at before
implementing the change.  Try doing this with real NT servers!
Additionally, you can use the integrate "x" to publish your OS/400 user
profiles from OS/400 to your Win2000 domain.  Password or user changes on
your iSeries are published to Windoze!

Additionally, the Windoze performance stats are tremendous compared to
standalone NT servers from anyone!  Since the servers use the iSeries IO
subsystem including the IOA/IOP's you will get at least twice the
performance of a standalone PC solution.  One more advantage is the fact
that IBM tests the Windows OS with every component and tests every fixpack
released by Microsoft!  If you follow IBM's recommendation to check with
them before applying a fix pack, you are gauranteed to have reliable
servers.  Unlike my DELL Servers which had all sorts of IO conflicts in a
system 100% packaged by DELL!  We fixed our Dell's but had to get fixes
from Dell support!

The only downside I see to Windows integration is the cost of mass disk
storage.  Unfortunately the best deal I can get on iSeries disk is about
$2500 for a 30mb disk.  IBM xSeries disk costs $1000 for 80mb.  I need 2
TB's of DASD for my project and this is a problem...   Running servers,
including CITRIX servers makes a lot of sense and cost differential
between IBM disk and PC disk is not significant compared to the benefits.
It large mass storage requirements that start to blow the deal...

Bob Cancilla
Republic Indemnity Company of America
(818)382-1023