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Please keep in mind that the minority of OS running on Power Systems is IBM i. AIX is much larger in terms of total instance count, and everything IBM does is not just for IBM i (although I think this group might wonder why it's not ;-) ) There are many shops that need the extra bandwidth that 10G Ethernet provides and they use load balancing and fail over on the lines.

The salient point here is if you need it, it's there, also IBM provides IBM i nearly everything it provides the other OSs running on Power Systems. A good thing.

Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


On 8/29/2012 6:14 AM, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Yeah, I find it kind of hilarious IBM is peddling aggregate ethernet for
load balancing when such a small percentage of the line is ever used. I
mean does ANYONE ever consume a large percentage of their ethernet lines?
Ok, aggregate ethernet has some value for failover, but load balancing?
Good grief!


Rob Berendt
-- IBM Certified System Administrator - IBM i 6.1 Group Dekko Dept 1600 Mail to: 2505 Dekko Drive Garrett, IN 46738 Ship to: Dock 108 6928N 400E Kendallville, IN 46755 http://www.dekko.com From: Sam_L <lennon_s_j@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Date: 08/28/2012 06:06 PM Subject: Re: 10GB Ethernet Cards Sent by: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx Appreciate all the comments for everyone. I asked our BP and they said: "The 10GBe is not a valid feature for the 9408-M25." I also played around with a monitor as suggested and utilization seems to be about 1%. I sent a 600 mb IFS file via Mimix to bhe backup book and it spiked to 4% for a couple of minutes. I need to some more monitoring to be sure I'm doing it right and I want to see what happens tonight with batch. The back up box is several states away in a managed data center. It looked at the line from the green screen side today and it is set to *AUTO but the current rate was 100mb. It's an older 520 but has the same 5706 IOA. Right now I'm leaning on telling the boss not to worry about an upgrade. Sam On 8/27/2012 5:58 PM, Sam_L wrote:
> Hardware, and communications, are not my strong point...
>
> However, I've been asked if we can go to 10GB Ethernet on our iSeries.
> It is an M25 and we are at V7R1. We currently have two 1G Ethernet
> cards. We don't do any SNA (I hope.)
>
> Couple of questions:
>
> 1) As far as I can tell, we have an 5706 IOA which will support 10GB. If
> you know anything to the contrary, please tell.
>
> 2) What is a ball park price for a 10GB card for the iSeries.
>
> 3) Any "gotchas" come to mind?
>
> Thanks, Sam
>

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