Off the top of my head I can think of the data base (DB2 Multisystem) as
well as most application servers (Websphere, etc.). Assuming I
understand your question correctly.
vertical scaling - adding more CPUs within the same computer system
horizontal scaling - adding more computer systems to the environment
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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lukas Beeler
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 11:09 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: SAN vs i5 disk was: Any thoughts on the PowerVM
andlx86announcement?
On Jan 30, 2008 5:04 PM, Chris Bipes <chris.bipes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I would not say no extra hardware, you do need a dedicated NIC. It
should be at least 1GB. The rest is true but even at 1GB you will see
Servers ship with two NICs by default, and Small Businesses usually
don't have a redundant backbone.
back office. The iSeries on a blade would be great for fault
tolerance
and clustering the processor while having all the storage on one
redundant SAN. Need more horse power, add a blade.
There are i5/OS applications that support vertical scaling?
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