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Joe, On smaller scale systems, your comments are right on, but on larger scale system they are more of a nit. LPAR is designed for large systems, where the savings comes from reducing maintenance bills. You can move appropriately configured IOPs, which allows the movement of tape, but in the real world, everybody wants to backup simultaneously, so they all buy duplicate tape. Al Al Barsa, Jr. Barsa Consulting Group, LLC 400>390 914-251-1234 914-251-9406 fax http://www.barsaconsulting.com http://www.taatool.com "Joe Pluta" <joepluta@PlutaBro To: <midrange-l@midrange.com> thers.com> cc: Sent by: Subject: LPAR issue midrange-l-admin@m idrange.com 07/12/2002 11:14 AM Please respond to midrange-l Hey Al (and anyone else who has an opinion <grin>)! I've been advised that within an LPAR'd system the partitions don't necessarily work and play with one another. For example, you cannot share tape drives or optical drives. You cannot share Ethernet cards. Different partitions must have their own RAID arrays. If someone is trying to use an LPAR to reduce the cost of having multiple iSeries boxes, it seems that duplication of hardware like this could be a significant cost. I'd much rather be able to "pool" my hardware resources like I can on any decent Microsoft network and share them among my partitions. Is my information correct, and if so, is my opinion misguided? (Well, more misguided than usual?) Joe _______________________________________________ This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.
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