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  3. January 2005

RE: IFS Performance

Hi James

my perspective on the consolidation issue is that it is as much about reducing head count and [therefore] on-going costs rather than being solely concerned with up front capital costs. Viewed from this perspective an iSeries would still be a better solution than an additional linux box as the linux box is likely to need an additional administrator (in most cases), as well as all the additional power, asset tracking etc etc. and all the other overheads of just having a different box.

Server sprawl as manifested by Windows servers is what consolidation is aimed at slowing/preventing/eliminating (take your pick). In your example (i.e. using Linux) you have swapped one OS for another and retained the problem.

I will grant you that Linux may make having additional servers more manageable as compared to NT and also that just consolidating for the sake of it is not the answer to this or any particular problem, I'm just pointing out that raw performance is not the sole driver behind the consolidation push.

Regards
Evan Harris


While a dedicated iSeries may well perform better, I don't really think that is the point. The reason for putting the files on the iSeries in the first place is consolidation. But if doing so ruins performance then consolidation is not the answer. If the iSeries purports to solve problems by cosolidating machines, it had better perform well when doing so! I am certainly not going to spend many thousands more to get a big enough iSeries to handle the additional load of this one task when I can spend a few hundred and get a linux box that will run circles around it.

James Rich


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