Re: IXA/IXS/ISCSI RE: Saving the System i: Fight Rather Than Switch

If that's the case then you're correct that the System i is acting just like
a SAN (i.e., you can just plug in the replacement System x server and away
you go). Sure beats trying to restore/reload a standalone server which is
what I think Rob was referring to. I don't know how expanding logical drives
works on a SAN but the Windows guy here likes how I can easily increase
his disk space and he says the MS SQL apps appear run faster; no benchmarks
just anecdotal, but plausible since the data is distributed over more disk
arms than it would be in a standalone environment. Does a SAN allow you to
spread the data over all the available disk arms?

Kind regards,

BJ


On 12/14/06, Walden H. Leverich <WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>do you first have to install a base operating system

Absolutely not. Boot from SAN.

In this setup you're not "restoring" anything, you're simply having a
different physical CPU (and videocard/memorychip/fan/case/etc) use the
same system image.

-Walden

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