Re: Terabyte AS/400's ?

[Kirk Goins <kgoins@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Off the cuff.... #1 Lots of fast tape drives
                      #2 Spend twice as much and get a 2nd system and a VERY 
LARGE network connection...

Colin Williams wrote:

> So, how do you back up that monster?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chuck Lewis [mailto:clewis@iquest.net]
> Sent: Friday, May 05, 2000 8:13 AM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Terabyte AS/400's ?
>
> Richard !
>
> Thanks for the "snap shot" !
>
> This stuff is truly amazing and I'm sure a lot of folks had NO
> idea that there are AS/400's out here that are this BIG <BG> !!!
>
> Chuck
>
> theis_richard@fr.ibm.com wrote:
>
> > Chuck, if you are interested in large systems, find hereunder
> the numbers
> > of a 740-2070-1512 with
> >   1.75 TB of disk (340 arms of 2, 4 and 8 GB, RAIDed) and 30
> GB of memory
> > (18 pools, 1206 faults/s):
> >
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> >                            Display Performance Data
> >  Member . . . . . . . .   Q993231446             F4 for list
> >    Library  . . . . . .     FTMS1V4R4
> >  Elapsed time . . . :   01:55:15          Version  . . . . . :   4
> >  System . . . . . . :   xxxxxxxxx         Release  . . . . . :   3.0
> >  Start date . . . . :   19/11/99          Model  . . . . . . :   740
> >  Start time . . . . :   14:47:15          Serial number  . .
> :   xx-xxxxx
> >  Partition ID . . . :   00                Feature Code . . . :   2E6D
> >  QPFRADJ  . . . . . :   0                 QDYNPTYSCD . . . . :   1
> >  CPU utilization (priority) . . . . . . . . . . . :          26.45
> >  CPU utilization (other)  . . . . . . . . . . . . :          29.19
> >  Job count  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :           6200
> >  Transaction count  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :         442726
> >  Transactions per hour  . . . . . . . . . . . . . :         230486
> >  Average response (seconds) . . . . . . . . . . . :           0.62
> >  Disk utilization (percent) . . . . . . . . . . . :          14.17
> >  Disk I/O per second  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :         4578.9
> >
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> -------------------------------
> >
> >
>        Also
> > interesting is the pattern of the processors's allocation:
> >
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------------
> > Average CPU Utilization . . . . . . :  55.7
> > CPU 1 Utilization . . . . . . . . . :  37.9
> > CPU 2 Utilization . . . . . . . . . :  47.4
> > CPU 3 Utilization . . . . . . . . . :  48.7
> > CPU 4 Utilization . . . . . . . . . :  50.7
> > CPU 5 Utilization . . . . . . . . . :  52.4
> > CPU 6 Utilization . . . . . . . . . :  54.8
> > CPU 7 Utilization . . . . . . . . . :  56.8
> > CPU 8 Utilization . . . . . . . . . :  59.5
> > CPU 9 Utilization . . . . . . . . . :  62.3
> > CPU 10 Utilization. . . . . . . . . :  64.2
> > CPU 11 Utilization. . . . . . . . . :  65.9
> > CPU 12 Utilization. . . . . . . . . :  67.5
> >
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> ----------------
> >
> > Bonne réception/Best regards
> > Richard THEIS
> >   AS/400 Education, France
> >   theis_richard@fr.ibm.com
> >
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