Re: Disk RAID/mirroring/hot spares, etc

[Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Very true, V5R2 is when they started.  At that time a fellow named Paul 
Weyer and I did several iASP pitches at COMMON discussing how they could 
be useful. Later Dr. Franken and I did a few sessions as well.(some of 
those were really fun, and in Indianapolis we actually created an iASP 
during the session using Frankie I)   I did not include V5R2 in my 
earlier post since it is no longer supported by IBM.  You may recall 
that Al Barsa was not as impressed with them as he could have been, with 
some good reason, however I contended at the time that rather than kill 
the concept, it should be allowed to mature just as micro partitioning 
and LPAR did.

As each successive OS is released, the feature/function set gets better 
and better, as do many of the operational issues associated with iASP.  
While the primary use for them in in SAP environments, I like them for 
several other uses as well some of which have been discussed today.

Jim Oberholtzer
CEO/Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects, LLC


On 4/15/2010 3:05 PM, Chris Bipes wrote:
> *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(r) Pro*
> Also I have downloaded the IBM Redbook on iASP's  Actually introduced in
> V5R2.
>
> Chris Bipes
> Director of Information Services
> CrossCheck, Inc.
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> Between the good Dr. and my post I think you have it.
>