RE: iSeries and Sans

iSeries backup/recovery provides a great solution for an easy recovery of your 
complete server farm. It can recover all  your Windows Network Storage Areas 
just by restoring the IFS. You reattach your replacement IXA/IXS/Blade servers 
and you are up and running. This sure beats having to recreate a Windows image, 
reinstall the applications and then restore the application data. This level of 
recoverability could go a long way toward justifying the additional cost of an 
iSeries based SAN.

Kenneth

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from: "Graap, Kenneth" <keg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: RE: iSeries and Sans

There is no advantage to be gained attaching an iSeries to an 
external SAN (IMHO) ...

If you have a SAN for another system (mainframe) and the iSeries is 
compatable then the advantage is cheaper disk... it's way cheaper for 
the disk.

Now, attaching blade servers or IXA 
servers to the iSeries and utilizing it's storage as a SAN ... 
That has merit.

If you have a couple of servers this seems like a sensible thing to do 
but once you get some serious storage... Open System SAN, way cheaper 
and just as reliable.