RE: Windows on an iSeries?

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

I think John Jones filled out most of your information the best.

We had 9 IXS cards and they worked pretty good.  Hitting the processor 
limit never seemed to be a problem for us.  However, when we went to power 
6 all 9 of our IXS cards were not going to work.  Some models will work 
with power 6, but not ours.  So we phased them out for iSCSI.  This freed 
up some frames, not just slots, in the racks.  An IXS card really takes 2 
or 3 slots.
iSCSI was pretty much a disappointment.  We had multiple vmware issues - 
performance mainly, and stuff.  Decided to go with NetApp.  This allowed 
us to keep the blade centers but leave the disk management up to the 
NetApp devices.  They will also hot sync one NetApp device with an offsite 
unit.  Otherwise we were looking at a PC-Mimix product.  For individual PC 
file save/restore we use Tivoli Storage Manager running on our Power 6 in 
a Linux partition.  We use this to save all of our PC's, PC servers, etc.

I do take offense at the term "expensive i disk".  We tried archiving our 
Domino email from the i to "inexpensive" Windows servers.  We found out 
that people are in their archives constantly.  Performance was 
unacceptable.  We moved those domino servers back to the i.  We even have 
two archive servers for cluster replication.  Both on different i's.

Rob Berendt