No backups to manage. No server hardware to manage. No disks to manage, RAID
to rebuild, etc. No footprint/power/HVAC to manage in the rack. No
maintenance contract to maintain. No physical cabling required (can VLAN & use
host iSeries LAN).
They're just simpler to deal with.
I'd add that for some reason the IXS cards seem to be less likely to lock up or
suffer other quirks than regular servers. The first one I had, for instance,
was a 233MHz Pentium 2 with 256MB RAM running NT 4. Rock solid; would stay up
for months on end with no problems at all. The current IXS models seem to be
just as reliable when running Server 2003.
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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Walden H. Leverich
Sent: Mon 4/2/2007 3:59 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Windows Integration and Longhorn
Windows, AD, etc. thinks it was shut down and later restarted. That's
all.
Ahh.... But then you don't have two AD servers. You don't have to have
multiple AD servers, but you should, especially if you have multiple
locations, and each location should have a global catalog too. An AD
restore is _not_ as simple as just popping back the disk image -- there
are multi-master update issues to contend with, and is this an
authoritative or non-authoritative restore. This is especially true when
you introduce systems that are heavily dependant on AD, like Exchange.
They don't require any day-to-day
admin that isn't covered by normal iSeries operations. They are
manually touched for issues like Windows Update, but since they're on a
private hardened subnet that's really optional/irregular.
Then why would that be different if they were on their own hardware? I'm
not arguing that Windows boxes need to be looked at on a daily basis --
in fact I think they can hum along on their own quite nicely, but you
seem to imply that when on the IXS there's less to do then when on a
stand alone box.
-Walden
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(Whatever is said in Latin seems profound.)
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