Re: AIX suggestions

[Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx>]

My experience has been that serving Netserver shares to Windows clients is
slow. But that reading and writing to the IFS from RPG applications tend to
be faster than reading and writing to a local drive on a PC, using an
executable written in say Delphi.

If you have an AIX partition dedicated to file serving, it seems logical
that such a setup would perform better than an IBM server that was running
thousands or tens of thousands of concurrent Jobs. And why use a database
server as a file server?






On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 8:13 AM, Jim Oberholtzer <
midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Folks:
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> A bit off topic for this forum but I don't think there is an AIX forum in
> Midrange.com.    We can take responses off line unless folks are
> interested.
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> I'm setting up a new AIX environment at Agile (P8 with SAN storage).  It
> will ultimately take over for an older Microsoft AD server, primarily
> focused on file serving (SAMBA or AIX Connections) and act as a NIM server.
> IBM i will provide DNS/LDAP/DHCP.  As much as anything this will be a proof
> of concept to kill AD in select customers.
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> Before I get the "Why not just use IBM i all the way", quite simply the IFS
> is too slow in most cases both in file serving and backup/restore.  Not a
> slam on it, just a fact.
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> So I'm looking for suggestions on DASD structure or any other best practice
> tips those of you who already run AIX might have.
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> I'll be trolling for AIX specific sites as well but I thought I'd start
> here.
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