Re: AS/400 size guess

[Philipp Rusch <Philipp.Rusch@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Chris,
assuming that you really need this machine "only for backup", I would go
for a 170 with FC 2385 (CPW 460 / int. CPW 50) or FC 2386 (460 CPW
/ int. CPW 70), this should give you enough horsepower to run your
main apps. The FC 2385 is still in P10-group, the 2386 is already a P20.
I've got a customer using a 2385 processor / 1280 MB Memory  with about
170 Telnet devices, they reach an average usage of 30%, the machine is a blitz.
The only thing you have to consider about using a 170 as a failover machine
is disk size: the 170 box is limited to 10 disk drives, this makes a maximum
of 175 GB when using 17,5GB drives minus ca. 10% when on RAID-5.

HTH, Philipp Rusch

Quazy schrieb:

> I have a 720 with processor 2063 feature1504  with 2GB memory.
>
> I am looking to get a fail over machine, I want to get the smallest machine
> that will handle the normal workload of just my mission critical application.
>
> My CPU averages at only about 15% to maybe 20% and basically almost no
> pageing, when I have just this application running.
>
> I am looking for a machine that could handle this for a realatively short
> period of time, say 12 to 24 hours. It could be running at 90 - 100% CPU.
> It would need to have the ability to have about 350 interactive devices
> attached, and would need basically no batch processing during the fail over.
>
> Does anyone have a guess at what size of a machine that this would take to
> run on?
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Chris
>
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