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I wouldn't even entertain an IBM SAN solution.

Problem with that is it maintains the "iSeries is different" mentality
in a shop. 

The reality is in many shops the non-iSeries storage dwarfs the iSeries
storage. SANs allow us to buy and deploy storage w/out regard to which
server needs it. I'd much rather have 1 SAN w/50TB of storage and 50
servers accessing it, than 50 servers each w/1TB of disk. In the former
I have one thing to manage, backup and replicate, in the latter I have
50. 

Now, if I've got 50TB of disk sitting there spinning, say 25TB used, 25
free, and I need another TB for my iSeries it's a hard sell to
management that I need to "buy" more disk for my "special" iSeries when
any other server would happily use what I've got spinning.

-Walden


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