Operations Console and LPAR

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Is Operations Console required on a LPAR'ed iSeries?

Is it STRONGLY RECOMMENDED in this situation?  (As in more strongly
recommended that what you would need in a non lpar iSeries.)  If so, why?

We are about to be dragged kicking and screaming into the lpar world.  We
didn't need it when we combined 15 AS/400's into one iSeries.  But to
avoid the high charge of web$phere we want to lpar that.  And since
IBM/Lotus can't seem to get R6 of Domino working with the latest Sametime
and Quickplace on the same iSeries.

We will have 4 partitions:
- Primary, (dummy)
- Everything that runs on the iSeries now.
- Sametime and/or Quickplace
- Web$phere

Every 8 weeks we will bring down the three partitions, back them up and
apply ptf's (and if applicable, new release of OS).  After that we will do
the same to the primary.  In effect, doubling our downtime (since the
secondaries will be toast when the primary is down).  Not counting the
effect of tape drive contention.  (That could go either way.  After all,
we do have the following tape drives:  1-3590, 2-3581, 1-4gb cartridge,
1-8mm, 1-9348 and 1-DVD RAM.)

We are looking at hooking up a separate twinax device for each partition.

We have 4 other iSeries on site.  I don't see much benefit from remote
access to Op's Console.  But then I live 10 minutes from work, while many
of the others working downtime live a greater distance.

Rob Berendt
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