Re: High Availability

[D.BALE@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Not to mention that the transport mechanism for natural gas is a lot less
troublesome than diesel fuel!

Dan Bale
IT - AS/400
Handleman Company
248-362-4400  Ext. 4952

-------------------------- Original Message --------------------------
At 06:15 PM 1/29/01 -0500, you wrote:

My preference is a natural gas generator.  They tend to start up reliably,
and are low maintenance.

This brings up the question of what do you do if your disaster is SO bad
that natural gas distribution is disrupted.  Well my take on that is that
your area of the country will be in SO much trouble, that you being out of
business will make little difference.

Al


>GET A DIESEL GENERATOR
>
>Oludare
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: <mailto:tomh@simas.com>tomh@simas.com
>>To: <mailto:MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
>>Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 5:46 PM
>>Subject: Re: High Availability
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>>You might considering Clustering to increase system availability:
>><http://www.as400.ibm.com/ha/ha_clusttech.htm>http://www.as400.ibm.com/ha/
>>ha_clusttech.htm
>>
>>What happens if you have a transformer blow out outside of your building,
>>and it takes a day or so to get it working again?  I ask because this has
>>happened at least once in 3 of the last 4 years here (the first ice fall
>>here and the foot heaters go on).
>>
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>>DanDaFourOOMan <danda400man@yahoo.com>
>>Sent by: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
>>
>>01/29/01 04:05 PM
>>Please respond to MIDRANGE-L
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>>         To:        "MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com" <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
>>         cc:
>>         Subject:        High Availability
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>>I am needing to consider high availability options for our new
>>AS/400s, which I am responsible for configuring.  A recent
>>thread discussed RAID vs. mirroring.  Another thread mentioned a
>>product named Mimix, which I've seen advertised.
>>The new AS/400s are replacing old ones and we have one in each
>>of our five plants spread across the U.S., one in Mexico, and
>>one in England.  Needless to say, I need to be able to manage
>>these systems and diagnose and solve problems from our corporate
>>office.  Management appears to be opening the wallet to ensure
>>HA.  Some critical considerations: Unplanned outages of 8 or
>>more hours would hurt us.  Greater than 24 hours and I'll be
>>passing out resumes.
>>Where can I go to read up on the issues I need to consider for
>>HA?
>>Any advice on which way to go on RAID vs. mirroring?
>>Any other advice?
>>
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