Re: External disk for iSeries -- MIDRANGE-L

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At 09:27 AM 6/7/2004, Jeff Bull wrote:

I've just read an article on external dasd for the iSeries and thought that
you guys/gals might be interested.

The external disk thing will really take off when you can add non-IBM disks
(i.e. non-IBM prices) into the system or user-asp.
Mirroring or disk-to-disk backups could become a financial possibility for
lots of shops with smaller iSeries.
Perhaps someone somewhere in the iSeries world is already attaching non-IBM
disks to their ASP and would like to share their experiences with those of
us 'confined' to internal disk?

http://www.iseries400experts.com/aiw/06-0704.jsp

Five or so years ago, I had an air conditioner fail in the computer room. A rack of EMC storage devices went belly up and extra crispy. The IBM CE came in on a Sunday and tried to help, but there was nothing he could do. Fortunately, we were almost ready to cut over to a new machine, so we pushed the schedule a little, and were back on line with only a day of lost production. The hardware specs of the EMC DASD were such that the AS400 didn't alarm, but the DASD still fried. This really wasn't a finger pointing situation. It was still a groaner. I don't want anything integral to the box that's not OEM certified and provided. When my system goes down at 22:00 on Sunday, I want somebody to FIX IT.

Pete Hall http://www.pbhall.us

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