I know that both Rob and I are both big fans of the HMC, but I do like both
LAN Console and the HMC for different reasons.
My preference would Always be an HMC, even on a single partition machine,
but it is more expensive than a PC running LAN Console and it does require
some additional maintenance. We are talking about an hour of maintenance a
quarter keeping up to date with versions, releases, and service packs. HMC
is great. I like the connectivity of the HMC better as well.
For a single partition machine, I always install LAN Console with two
Ethernet cards in the PC. One Ethernet card direct to the AS/400 (Ethernet
port T5 if it's a 520), and the 2nd Nic out to the Clients Network. This is
cheap, and I can usually have the customer get a PC from their inventory as
it doesn't need to be a brand new 3.0 ghz PC. It just needs to be a simple
Windows XP Pro pc.
Pete
Pete Massiello
iTech Solutions
http://www.itechsol.com
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Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 4:36 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Remote console options
Sorry, I thought you were choosing between thin console and HMC. You're
trying to decide between lan console and HMC.
I used to use Op's console years ago. It was ok. But when we had
multiple lpars it quickly lost it's luster. But it's been so long that I
am not sure about it. We only used it for local operations and never
bothered getting the front panel stuff to work.
Anyone seen any side by side comparison videos?
Rob Berendt
midrange.com
