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Herb - I'm going to jump in where I barely know something!!

The iSeries can work fine with SANs, as long as the right controller card or whatever is on it. As to applications and databases, those must reside in libraries, so whatever storage you have must be seen as the equivalent of locally-installed DASD. As I say, this is possible. I ran some tests of our software on a system that IBM supplied for TotalStorage status. It is very cool to see one of IBM's Shark units act like native DASD.

I don't know whom you should talk to - find a business partner that understands - EMC might have the knowledge you need.

If you are talking about IFS stuff (non library, not application, non database), then something like NFS can be a great way to do things - Network File System - assuming your SAN can be seen with that protocol.

HTH
Vern

At 03:20 PM 7/28/2006, you wrote:

Hello.
We're brand new (in fact know nothing) to the iSeries game. Have just
about all the other platforms. We haven't acquired any equipment yet. But
we're intending on moving a remote data center into our corporate
facility. We're considering attaching an iSeries box to our EMC/Brocade
SAN(symmetrix class). We will be running v5.3.0 on a i520 type box. Could
the OS and page files remain on local storage while all applications and
databases reside on the SAN?  Could all storage requirements be on the SAN
similar to a mainfame environment?  Any special considerations concerning
the HBA aside from EMC specs?

Thanks,
Herb
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