RE: AS400 on a Storage Area Network (SAN)

We haven't done this yet, but the biggest issue is the load source.  The
System i (AS/400, et al.) wants to see a physical load source drive to
boot from.  

IBM's SAN solutions now have support for dedicating a disk as a load
source (and i5/OS supports this too - I think it's in V5R3M5, IIRC).
The only other SAN vendor who supports this that I know of is EMC.  They
don't use the native functionality, but instead put a card connected to
the SAN in te load source slot to fool the system into thinking there is
a physical load source. 

Now I'm not sure if you could put an IASP or user ASP (Auxiliary Storage
Pools that would not include load source) and put those on a SAN more
easily.  


 
 
Jeff Carey
Acxiom Corp.

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Debbie Gordon
Sent: Friday, April 14, 2006 11:14 AM
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Subject: AS400 on a Storage Area Network (SAN)



Good afternoon all,

I'm inquiring if anyone has placed the AS400 databases on a SAN.
Can anyone give me Pro's and Con's of doing this??

Thank you
Debbie Gordon
debbie_gordon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx



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