Re: Joe's V5R1 upgrade

I still have my doubts about how well this would work.  After all, there 
is more to an iSeries today than your production program library and your 
production data library.  Along with user profiles, authorization lists, 
IFS files, spool files, etc, etc, etc.

Basically, what would be in your system ASP?

Even if it is just OS, what about all the times that an OS upgrade goes 
out and touches every object on a system?

Rob Berendt
-- 
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary 
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." 
Benjamin Franklin 




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Mark,

    We can do this now.  You setup independant storage pools, and you can
move them from one system to another. so if you have a system ASP, and
everything else in other ASPs 1-n you can vary one off and vary it onto
another box.  It works best with SHARK I think, but was beening demoed at
the Nashville Common last year.

    So, at least in theory.  If you have two systems capable of handling 
the
workload, you could move all the user area's (storage) to system two and
them update system one with ~zero user down time.

    JMS...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Phippard" <MarkP@softlanding.com>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 8:35 PM
Subject: RE: Joe's V5R1 upgrade


>
> As Walden and others have pointed out, with a cluster of Linux or 
Windows
> systems you can take a system out of the cluster to apply fixes without
> bringing down the cluster and your application.
>
> I think the iSeries really needs to improve in this area.  As it stands, 
I
> would have a real hard time recommending the iSeries for someone with 
high
> availability needs in a "connected world".  The iSeries rocks when it
comes
> to unscheduled downtime, but it is not so great in the area of planned
> downtime.

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