RE: Saving the System i: Fight Rather Than Switch

Running WAS.  Startup may be a little sluggish but in reality everything
should reside in RAM once it gets going.  Not much need for capacity;
just enough for the OS + WebSphere + the deployed application bits
(which totals around 4GBish).

And yeah, 73GB 15K RPM disks for the Dell I mentioned are $379 each so
if 2 wasn't enough we could go to as many as 6 drives in the 2U frame.
8 drives if we used smaller form factor 2.5" disks and were willing to
step back to 10K RPM.


John A. Jones, CISSP
Americas Information Security Officer
Jones Lang LaSalle, Inc.
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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Walden H. Leverich
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 12:25 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Saving the System i: Fight Rather Than Switch

...for a complete server with tons of CPU capacity, adequate disk,  ...

I agree w/your pricing, but just curious, what are you doing w/8 cores
that only needs 1 set of mirrored disks? 

Of course, you can always add disk at a _much_ cheaper rate, but I'm
curious.

-Walden


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