On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 16:19, Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Below are some points that I have come up with:
Besides my earlier rant, i wanted to add some points from my
perspective that make the IBM i great:
* Good Integration between hardware and operating system. It's easy to
access information about the hardware in a standardized manner, and
the user interface for controlling most of the tasks is stable. No
need to deal with a variety of third party software just to get basic
hardware monitoring, which is the case with System x hardware.
* Powerful save and restore facilities, paired with proper
documentation and proper software can make machine migrations a
breeze. I've migrated customers from Power5-520s to Power 6 520s
during lunch (~1 hour of downtime). Even other scenarios, like booting
from a Save 21 tape on blank hardware are very good in the
environments i deal with. Sadly, IBM doesn't have any good no-frills
backup software (e.G. Save 21 nightly, which would easily be possible
with LTO4 drives in smaller machines).
That's all i can come up with. There are other things that are quite
good on the i (e.G. PTF), but many of these are hampered by IBM - the
technology behind it may be sound, but often there's just not enough
communication. IBM offers loads of security relevant PTFs, labelling
each of those just as "Integrity Fix" - you don't know what you're
dealing with. Microsoft communicates security issues much better.
midrange.com
