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Mark,This is where LPAR fits so well. You can create a partition on the i that is just used for hosting disk for x and AIX/Linux partitions. Since that partition isn't used for development or web serving or Java or C or such things, the requirement that it gets the latest greatest PTFs is minimal. Routinely we see these partitions running for a year without PTFs. Your dev partitions can be updated and IPLed without so much as a hickup on the hosting partition side.
This is clearly the sort of setup I would recommend in your environment.Hopefully in a soon to be released version IBM will allow i5/OS to be a guest of another i5/OS partition. Now THAT has me drooling at how simple it would be to create a new partition!
- Larry Mark Phippard wrote:
midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 10/27/2006 01:13:18 PM:Don't SAN's have their own upgrades to put on also?Sure, but as a development shop we apply updates a lot and we do not need every resource on our network being unavailable because we want to put on a PTF. Also, we have so many different things running on the iSeries that there are a lot of pieces that can need fixes -- requiring downtime. I'd expect a SAN to be more stable in this area since it has a more focused purpose.I'd like to use my iSeries as the SAN, I think it bring some value. In our case, the way we use our iSeries, it just didn't make sense.Mark
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