RE: Copying data to IFS

Its an 810 1way

Michael Smith
iSeries.mySeries.


-----Original Message-----
From: Holder, Ken [mailto:kkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 10:21 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Copying data to IFS



What size i5/As/400 are you running?  I found that when we upgrade to a
model 550 2way from a model 730 8way the IFS was a lot faster.  Not sure
this will help you much but it was a nice bonus to our upgrade.

Ken H.

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Smith, Mike
Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 7:18 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Copying data to IFS


No, not using QDLS.  We have a shared folder in the IFS under Root.
Created a new folder in within this and tried to do the copy.  

Michael Smith
iSeries.mySeries.


-----Original Message-----
From: rob@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:rob@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 9:57 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Copying data to IFS


First of all, you aren't using QDLS are you?  That is a dog!!!

Second, Yes the IFS is slow, but it's not the disk drives.  It's 
NetServer.  I took stuff that I served with NetServer and put it on an
IXS 
card on the same box using the same disk drives and it was served much 
faster.  Supposedly V5R4 has some significant improvements to NetServer.

However, I've no longer some good time trials to do a before and after.

For a long term solution for backing up your PC's and servers I'd 
recommend Tivoli Storage Manager.  However i5/os is being dropped as a 
supported platform for hosting TSM.  IBM suggests that if you just got
to 
use i5 hardware then to use a Unix or Linux partition.

Speaks volumes about IBM's commitment to the i5 when they take a former 
director of marketing for the iSeries (Al Zollar) and put him in charge
of 
Tivoli and one of the first things he does is dump support for i5/os.

Rob Berendt