Re: xSeries and iSeries integration - ROI

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

We have 8 IXS cards in our 570.
It's rather nice to be able to change the disk used without dropping the 
server.
The speed of the vlan kicks butt, and doesn't tie up other lan resources.
We use TSM, running under PASE, to back up these servers, and several 
other servers and clients.  TSM comes with certain Enterprise packages.

There is a story about a company that put 31 or 32 IXS cards in an 
iSeries.  They looked at a SAN, however, the tape capabilities, etc of the 
iSeries (i=integrated) convinced them to go that route.  This was a 
company that did NOT previously have an iSeries.  I'll see if my boss 
remembers who that was (he's on this email's BCC).

http://www-306.ibm.com/software/success/cssdb.nsf/advancedsearchVW?SearchView&Query=(Windows+Integration)+AND+[WebSiteProfileListTX]=eserveriseries&site=eserveriseries&frompage=ts&Start=1&Count=30
or
http://makeashorterlink.com/?L180228CA

Other general iSeries success stories
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/success/


Rob Berendt
-- 
Group Dekko Services, LLC
Dept 01.073
PO Box 2000
Dock 108
6928N 400E
Kendallville, IN 46755
http://www.dekko.com





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xSeries and iSeries integration - ROI






I'm looking into the benefits of consolidating our Windows server
environment (currently about 125 servers) into an iSeries / xSeries
configuration. 

Before anything like this would even be considered my manager would need 
to
understand what the return on investment would be over time. Even though I
see lots of wonderful technical reasons for moving in this direction I 
would
need to prove that it also could save us money over time too.

Has anyone out there prepared an ROI analysis on this subject that they
might be willing to share? Also, has anyone actually planned and 
implemented
a server consolidation using IBM iSeries and xSeries? If so I'd love to 
get
some information from you on how you convinced your company that this was 
a
good idea....

Kenneth

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IBM Certified Specialist 
AS/400e Professional System Administrator
NW Natural (Gas Services)
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