Re: External disk for iSeries

[Pete Hall <pbhall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 09:27 AM 6/7/2004, Jeff Bull wrote:
> I've just read an article on external dasd for the iSeries and thought that
> you guys/gals might be interested.
>
> The external disk thing will really take off when you can add non-IBM disks
> (i.e. non-IBM prices) into the system or user-asp.
> Mirroring or disk-to-disk backups could become a financial possibility for
> lots of shops with smaller iSeries.
> Perhaps someone somewhere in the iSeries world is already attaching non-IBM
> disks to their ASP and would like to share their experiences with those of
> us 'confined' to internal disk?
>
> http://www.iseries400experts.com/aiw/06-0704.jsp

Five or so years ago, I had an air conditioner fail in the computer room. A 
rack of EMC storage devices went belly up and extra crispy. The IBM CE came 
in on a Sunday and tried to help, but there was nothing he could do. 
Fortunately, we were almost ready to cut over to a new machine, so we 
pushed the schedule a little, and were back on line with only a day of lost 
production. The hardware specs of the EMC DASD were such that the AS400 
didn't alarm, but the DASD still fried. This really wasn't a finger 
pointing situation. It was still a groaner. I don't want anything integral 
to the box that's not OEM certified and provided. When my system goes down 
at 22:00 on Sunday, I want somebody to FIX IT.


Pete Hall
http://www.pbhall.us