RE: 10GB Ethernet Cards

We consume 100% of our Ethernet line heading off campus all the time. Of course it is only 250MB and we have 1,500 resident students who all like to stream movies at night. :)

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Yeah, I find it kind of hilarious IBM is peddling aggregate ethernet for load balancing when such a small percentage of the line is ever used. I mean does ANYONE ever consume a large percentage of their ethernet lines?
Ok, aggregate ethernet has some value for failover, but load balancing?
Good grief!


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From: Sam_L <lennon_s_j@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Date: 08/28/2012 06:06 PM
Subject: Re: 10GB Ethernet Cards
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Appreciate all the comments for everyone.

I asked our BP and they said: "The 10GBe is not a valid feature for the
9408-M25."

I also played around with a monitor as suggested and utilization seems
to be about 1%. I sent a 600 mb IFS file via Mimix to bhe backup book
and it spiked to 4% for a couple of minutes. I need to some more
monitoring to be sure I'm doing it right and I want to see what happens
tonight with batch.

The back up box is several states away in a managed data center. It
looked at the line from the green screen side today and it is set to
*AUTO but the current rate was 100mb. It's an older 520 but has the same
5706 IOA.

Right now I'm leaning on telling the boss not to worry about an upgrade.

Sam

On 8/27/2012 5:58 PM, Sam_L wrote:

Hardware, and communications, are not my strong point...

However, I've been asked if we can go to 10GB Ethernet on our iSeries.
It is an M25 and we are at V7R1. We currently have two 1G Ethernet
cards. We don't do any SNA (I hope.)

Couple of questions:

1) As far as I can tell, we have an 5706 IOA which will support 10GB. If
you know anything to the contrary, please tell.

2) What is a ball park price for a 10GB card for the iSeries.

3) Any "gotchas" come to mind?

Thanks, Sam