Re: Samba

*I* would question the sanity of running an M$ server for 365 days without patching the security holes!!! :-)

On an app by app level you can do a lot with either platform, no doubt. But the bigger they get the multiplication factor of all those VMs gets pretty zany in the MS world.

One of my customer has a planned switchover test every quarter. They happily switch their Power Systems (IBM i) to the backup and pretty much sit back and wait. Wait for the Windows guys to give up. Last time I heard (late 2014) they got exactly 100% of the IBM i apps up in 20 minutes and exactly 0% of the Windows apps up in 6 hours. They have EMC SAN replicating all their VMs and Cisco blades for all the apps with MS SQL Server for the DB on that side. Not a single thing was running when they pulled the plug and switched back. Their argument, at least in part was, "Well of course it's easy for you guys you only have 7 VMs, we have hundreds!" It should be noted the 7 Power System VMs run the corporation, all the MS stuff is surrounding and supporting.

This cannot be the norm (I hope) because MS would be bankrupt but they certainly are not the only one with this issue!

So your point of accessing IBM i with Windows and other supporting apps, sure can be done effectively. Honestly running an entire corporation on it, yeah heeby geebies all day long.

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

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On 3/30/2015 12:39 PM, Richard Schoen wrote:

Yep that's why they buy MS. It's can't possibly be the stability or the apps. Or maybe it is ? :-)

Do you support any MS apps ? I would love to see you $mack talking Windows to a CIO/CTO.

I have Windows app server VM's that have been spinning more than 365 days at a time without issue.