RE: cheap SAN disks?

Is this really possible?  We looked at Shark and (shudder) EMC a couple
times in the past year and a half and were disappointed in the limitations
for the AS/400.  I did not actually see the iSeries V5R1 announcement, but
the first wave of press suggested that the iSeries would not be ready for
SAN solutions for a while.  They said that the Fibre attachment provided
technical direction, but that single-level storage issues would make it
tough for IBM to integrate an iSeries server into a SAN.

Did anyone pay attention to this during the announcement?  What did they
say?

I'm also curious as to why you chose "cheap SAN disks" as a subject.  We've
priced them all, and they ain't cheap.  We've been messing with SAN
technology for our Unix and NT servers for just over a year now.

-Jim

James Damato
Manager - Technical Administration
Dollar General Corporation
<mailto:jdamato@dollargeneral.com>


-----Original Message-----
From: Charly Jones [mailto:charly301@hotmail.com]
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 12:30 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: cheap SAN disks?



I am looking into possibly using the IBM Enterprise Storage Servers
for a large iSeries installation.  V5R1 and Fibre attachment appears
to make this a resonable thing to do.  Does anyone on this list
have any experience with this technology?  Any good news?
Anything to look out for?  Is there anyone that is actually
planning to use storage area network disks?

I am interested in your info, on this list or off...

Charly Jones
Geezer in Gig Harbor

253 265-6244


>From: "Charly Jones" <charly301@hotmail.com>
>
>I am looking into possibly using the IBM Enterprise Storage Servers
>for a large iSeries installation.  V5R1 and Fibre attachment appears
>to make this a resonable thing to do.  Does anyone on this list
>have any experience with this technology?  Any good news?
>Anything to look out for?  Is there anyone that is actually
>planning to use storage area network disks?
>
>I am interested in your info, on this list or off...
>
>Charly Jones
>Geezer in Gig Harbor
>
>253 265-6244
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