Re: 24x7 information

["Mike Shaw" <mshaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Al,

Not only that, if you do not have some capacity to start LPARing with, it
can be very expensive to implement.  The other gotcha for LPAR right now is
that it does not facilitate easy sharing of common resources across
partitions.  I hope this gets improved here in the near future.

All in all, I like the concept of LPAR in the AS/400 arena, but it has a
long way to go in terms of how LPARing is implemented in the S/390 world
today.

Regards,

Mike Shaw
Senior AS/400 Tech Support
North American Mortgage
Santa Rosa, CA

----- Original Message -----

> >
> >message: Sorry - no practical experience, But you should at least
consider
> >LPAR instad of two separate boxes.
>
> With all due respect, I disagree.  LPAR provides a single point of
> failure.  If the CPU fails, all partitions are down.  When you IPL the
> primary partition, all partitions are down.  And what happens in the case
> of a fire or prolonged power outage?
>
> Al
>
>
>
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