Ramifications of combining GDIMAIL/GDIHQ -- DOMINO400

We have two AS/400's (actually we have several, but just think about these
two for now).  We are thinking of combining them into one super machine to
reduce costs.  Leased.  Jumping to the P50 tier is already in the budget.
GDIHQ - 9406-730-2C6E - P40 - 3590E
GDIMAIL - 9406-830-23D1 - P30 - 3590E and LTO

GDIMAIL runs two applications:  Domino and Tivoli PC backup.
Domino
Server
GDSHELP - help desk, etc
NOTES01 - Primary mail, some databases.  Between 800-900 users
GDDATA - bulk of non email data
QUALITY - All of our quality data - quite extensive.
LEISERVE - Strictly LEI, formerly known as Notes Pump.
GDSSALES - Sales databases
*HTTPSETUP
INTERNOTES - Internet mail
DOMFAX01 - Fax for Domino for iSeries 4.4
Very limited number of AS/400 user id's.

GDIHQ runs BPCS for 13 separate legal companies, many with multiple
divisions.
It also processes payroll and accounting for all these companies.
Lots of user id's.

Boss doesn't skimp on performance on any of our boxes.

Final would be GDIHQ moving to an 8xx box.

Currently:
                            Display System Status                     GDIHQ
                                                            10/03/01
13:37:39
% CPU used . . . . . . . :       11.5    Auxiliary storage:
% DB capability  . . . . :        4.1      System ASP . . . . . . :
203.7 G
Elapsed time . . . . . . :   00:00:13      % system ASP used  . . :
70.4343
Jobs in system . . . . . :      12385      Total  . . . . . . . . :
203.7 G
% perm addresses . . . . :       .071      Current unprotect used :
9621 M
% temp addresses . . . . :       .675      Maximum unprotect  . . :
9848 M
System    Pool    Reserved    Max   -----DB-----  ---Non-DB---
 Pool   Size (M)  Size (M)  Active  Fault  Pages  Fault  Pages
   1     2000.00    344.57   +++++     .0     .0     .0     .0
   2     2667.00       .56   17000    5.2    6.4    9.3   43.2
   3      275.00       .00      75     .2     .2    1.2    1.7
   4     1750.00       .00    3500   12.0   26.0   16.8   29.2
   5     1500.00       .00     300   15.2   49.5   13.6   29.1


                            Display System Status
GDIMAIL
                                                            10/03/01
13:40:09
% CPU used . . . . . . . :       29.1    Auxiliary storage:
% DB capability  . . . . :         .0      System ASP . . . . . . :
433.9 G
Elapsed time . . . . . . :   00:00:01      % system ASP used  . . :
57.0474
Jobs in system . . . . . :      47170      Total  . . . . . . . . :
907.7 G
% perm addresses . . . . :       .021      Current unprotect used :
10094 M
% temp addresses . . . . :       .038      Maximum unprotect  . . :
10371 M
System    Pool    Reserved    Max   -----DB-----  ---Non-DB---
 Pool   Size (M)  Size (M)  Active  Fault  Pages  Fault  Pages
   1      900.00    352.16   +++++     .0     .0     .0     .0
   2     5066.00      4.43   20000     .0   77.8    3.6   10.8
   3        6.00       .00       5     .0     .0     .0     .0
   4       55.00       .00      50     .0     .0    6.3    7.2
   5      117.00       .00      30     .0     .0     .0     .0
                      Display ASP Information using BRM             GDIMAIL
Number of ASPs  . . . . . :      2     Current unprotected used . . :
10121 M
Allocated ASUs  . . . . . :     75     Maximum unprotected used . . :
10371 M
Unallocated ASUs  . . . . :      0     Mirroring main storage . . . :
0 M
Pairs of mirrored units . :      0
      - Threshold -      ASP              -----  ASP Media  -----
ASP   Pct     Value    Ovrflw    Mirror     Size    Avail   %Used
  1    90     43393     No       No       433926   186351   57.05
  2    99      4738     No       No       473822    10860   97.71
The second ASP is all Tivoli used for PC backup and is preallocated space.

We thought of things like backup times, lan cards, etc.

What I need help with is this one issue about AS/400 email.  Before I send
the attached email - what do you think?

Rob Berendt

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A smart person learns from their mistakes,
but a wise person learns from OTHER peoples mistakes.
----- Forwarded by Rob Berendt/DEKKO on 10/03/2001 01:34 PM -----

                    Rob Berendt
                                         To:     Chris Edwards/DEKKO
                    10/03/2001           cc:     kevin reed
                    01:28 PM             Fax to:
                                         Subject:     Ramifications of 
combining GDIMAIL/GDIHQ




Currently on GDIMAIL we are using a 100% Domino email solution.  This is
supposed to provide a better throughput for email.  The negative
ramifications is that SNDDST, SNDEMAIL and other commands of that genre no
longer work.  This would be unacceptable on GDIHQ.  Options:
   See if the 100% native is still that much better.
   Who cares?  Convert to mixed mode anyways.
   Partition.
   Maintain the status quo - keep two AS/400's.
   Buy enough machine that negates any performance impact.
   Replace commands of the email genre to use Domino API's.



Rob Berendt

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A smart person learns from their mistakes,
but a wise person learns from OTHER peoples mistakes.