Re: NT server on a midrange -- MIDRANGE-L

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Well, it started at as a FSIOP, then went to IPCS. From there it branched
off to either IXS or IXA. IXS was a PC on a card within your system i and
IXA was a card that connected to a PC elsewhere. IXS was nice in that it
gave you a PC with no maintenance cost as it was included since it was an
internal card. IXA gave you the flexibility to add a few more gadgets to
the external PC. With the newer boxes many older versions of the IXS were
dropped. We lost all nine of ours.

From the IBM i standpoint the hope was that you would progress from either

IXA or IXS to a blade center attached via an iSCSI card. We had troubles
with this and ended up doing a blade center with no iSCSI card. Instead
of the i it used a NetApp device. Goal is to have one blade center at one
location with NetApp mirroring everything on another NetApp device at the
remote site.

We liked the IXS. Will say that freeing up three card slots for each IXS
times nine IXS sets did free up some frames and power consumption.

Rob Berendt

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