More DASd

 Vern,

I stated my problem wrong and got all off to thinking I was trying
something else early on. My mistake. 

We started with ESS6000 at about 100k then i5 dasd for 40k then Netapp
for 33k then to DS300 off xseries for 15k. My BP sent some young kid
that only knows NAS and SAN. I stated I wanted the most cost effective
solution for images only. I think he took that to mean NAS/SAN. My
mistake there for not being clear and asking for a storage specialist in
al areas. Seems you only get i5 experts or NAS/SAN experts. We do about
7GB per week of images and see it getting to 10GB easy. So cheaper dasd
for this is the way to go as it is not used all day long. Really only
first 3-6 months then sits for 7 years for legal reasons. But it is our
only file. We no longer produce or we shred the paper.  Soon we will
have a DR site (we are going public) and we plan to copy them over there
for backup/archive.

I have read the IBM NFS books. Which are quite good actually and found
some posts on this list for mount. (Once I knew that was the command I
wanted). I am going to start up that xseries NFS and try a mount this
weekend with some images. 

I thank all that sent responses like you, Lukas and Rob. Another
midrange list success that saved me money. 
  
The good news is I can now help others with this same problem as I ran
circles around this problem. 

------------------------------

message: 6
date: Thu, 03 Aug 2006 20:38:53 +0000
from: vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx
subject: Re: More DASD

Karl

I think you are right - just hang some disk out there and use it. We
recommend it all the time for storing images in our imaging solution. On
a Windows box, for example, you need Windows Services for Unix, but it
is a free download from Microsoft. Once you've done that, you fire up
the service, create a share with certain permissions and anonymous
access allowed. There are some other settings in XP and 2003. Then you
create a directory on the iSeries and mount the NFS name over that
directory and bah-dah-bing! It can be done to a Linux or Unix box, too,
which usually have an NFS server application available. I don't see how
your BP can say this needs so much stuff as to make it prohibitively
expensive. We do this off a V5R1 box, so I also don't see a problem with
OS version.
-------------- Original message -------------- 
From: "Karl Lauritzen Jr." <klauritzen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 

No. I want to move image files from IFS on i5 storage over to cheaper 
dasd and have i5 see it to display it. 
My image vendor says this can be done via NFS. My IBM BP says not 
without so much stuff it costs the same as adding i5 dasd expansion 
unit. I am still on 810 at v5r2 not i5 so maybe that is my problem

too. 

I though all I needed to do was hang some disk off an xseries, share

it 

and mount via NFS and 400 would see it and use it. 
Opposite of sharing IFS on 400 to rest of network. I am finding it is 
not that easy. 


-