RE: Any thoughts on the PowerVM and lx86 announcement?

Or.....back to Rob's original question about why buy a blade server

a)
Buy a SAN
Buy a System i Blade
Buy other servers, attach servers to SAN

b)
Buy a SAN
Buy a big System i
Buy other servers, attach servers to SAN

Michael Crump

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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lukas Beeler
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 4:51 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Any thoughts on the PowerVM and lx86 announcement?

On Jan 29, 2008 10:46 PM, Crump, Mike <Mike.Crump@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I'm not sure if the previous note before Rob's references an external
SAN and/or someone using a System i as a SAN. The blade with i5/OS

only

works with an external SAN. The items from Lukas seem to pertain to a
System i being used as a SAN.....different subject point?

No, they're perfectly related.

There are two possible scenarios:

a)
Buy a SAN
Buy a System i Blade
Buy Servers, attach Servers to SAN

b)
Buy a big System i
Buy Servers, attach Servers to System i

I was arguing why a) might be better than b).