RE: x using i as storage

At a prior place of employment, I used an IxA PC server as an extranet web server running Cold Fusion
and serving data (via stored procs) off the iSeries.

Main Reasons
1) Performance & Security (private virtual Ethernet to the iSeries)
2) Ease of Backup/recovery (saved as part of the weekly full system saves)


Charles Wilt
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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-
bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lukas Beeler
Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 5:52 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: x using i as storage

On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 11:27 PM, Pete Massiello
<pmassiello-ml@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

It was an HS21 (Intel Blade) in a BCH, with iSCSI connected to a
Power5+ 520 with the disks in the drawers of an EXP24.

Everytime i see talk about using the standalone machines as a SAN, the
following questions comes to my head:

"Why, God, why?"

I've seen my fair share of technical documentation about this topic,
and i've also seen all the marketing blurb, but i've never seen
something that i would consider an advantage over using a real SAN.

Plus most backup solutions promoted by IBM for this scenario would
break ESE databases and cause USN rollbacks in DCs.

Are there people running this in production? And if yes - why did you
decide to do so?

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