RE: Any thoughts on the PowerVM and lx86 announcement?

Agreed. Under certain circumstances and for certain customers this may
be a nice way to do nice incremental increases. At our company I see
very little benefit, but we are similar to you. Not that I think it's a
bad thing.

Here is the only thing I could find on pricing:

10 Users -- PWR6-61X 1478 2,500
Unlimit Users -- PWR6-61X 1479 50,000
Unlim Ext Access -- PWR6-61X 1480 3,995
Unlim Collab User -- PWR6-61X 1481 5,995


Michael Crump

Manager, Computing Services
Saint-Gobain Containers, Inc.
1509 S. Macedonia Ave.
Muncie, IN 47302
765.741.7696
765.741.7012 f

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of rob@xxxxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 2:50 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Any thoughts on the PowerVM and lx86 announcement?

My thoughts on this run into the "What's in it for my company?". Don't
get me wrong - we have a blade center and another one to install (and,
damn, I've not see an electrical cord that big for computer equipment
outside of the Rochester Lab - and it takes two of those for the
redundant
power supplies).

Our SAN is a 570. If I am going to run a power blade to get a separate
i5/os lpar, why wouldn't I just run it as one of the new virtual lpar's
on
an existing lpar on the 570? Either way, I'm using the same SAN. Let's

face it, if the blade center has freaking huge power cables who wants to

cool that? We're already having to add an additional air conditioner.

So a small shop can run on a blade. However, does your average small
shop
go out and purchase a SAN? Once again, they're probably better served
using the System i as their SAN.

Rob Berendt