RE: Help me Justify iSeries

OK, I understand.  For us, we're talking images linked to invoices in
PeopleSoft EnterpriseOne so there is a certain synergy with keeping the
images on the same server as the data, or at least the web server (same
thing for us).  

Here we do Windows & iSeries.  Mostly Windows.  But for JDE &
EnterpriseOne, it's as close to 100% iSeries as can be.  Even the E1
Deployment Server & Java Gen machines, which are Windows-only, run on
IxS cards.

The disk is bought & paid for; we've a little over 3TB of 15K disk (54
arms, RAID5, 2780 controllers) and it's hovering at 18% full at the
moment (the app doesn't go live for another few weeks).  I think I can
afford the 10GB/year. :)

One thing I love about working here: If we need it we get it.  If we
want it we may not get it, but the needs are always met and we try not
to do anything half-way.  Our systems exist prdominantly for client data
so it's important they perform well.

BTW, to keep this in line with my other message about reducing the disk
arms on the DR box, the DR i5 we're about to buy will have 12 fewer
arms.  But it'll actually have more space as we're moving up to the
140GB 15K drives (after RAID about 4.9TB).  It'd have even fewer but
we're LPARing it for a dev environment.  Over the life of the machine
this is cheaper and we can always add more if we actually needed more
arms.