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Well that's kinda upside down. first off the server itself is built
using many industry standard components such as PCIe (first server to
deliver PCIe gen 4 by the way) and memory. The cards then are quite
normal as well with SAS, Fiber channel and Ethernet the most common but
also very high end SAS RAID cards.
Key components such as the processor of course are IBM POWER rather than
those other guys which yields nearly double the memory bandwidth and
allows pushing those PCIe gen 4 slots. It also has built in firmware
running in a service processor. Some will compare this to a BIOS or UEFI
and while it handles those functions it also contains the hyperisor for
the server. Unlike X86 systems where that needs to be loaded onto a USB
stick or other storage. It cannot be removed as it is that deeply
integrated.
This server runs three choices of operating systems being Linux, AIX,
and our favorite IBM i. AIX is of course UNIX but IBM i is not and never
was. Sure it has a file system that appears similar but that's so that
you can run programs that like that structure without having to rethink
where everything goes in the file system. Yes IBM i has parts of AIX in
it, known as PASE but they run rather as a guest of IBM i not the other
way around as some have suggested.
Some say IBM i has no native GUI but it does have navigator for i which
is installed and operates automatically and provides a complete
interface to manage the system through a web browser. This of course
means it works on your device whether that is a Mac, Linux, Windows,
Mobile etc.
And of course it has Db2 built in in.
- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis
www.Frankeni.com
www.iDevCloud.com - Personal Development IBM i timeshare service.
www.iInTheCloud.com - Commercial IBM i Cloud Hosting.
On 6/13/2018 2:46 PM, Graap, Kenneth wrote:
If I was to refer to an IBM Power Server and being a big UNIX system, with a nice GUI over it called IBMi (or OS400) .... Would I be that far off?
After all, isn't the ROOT directory for the entire system like a UNIX File system ROOT directory?
I realize that within this ROOT directory there are other files systems like QDLS (Folders) QSYS.LIB (DB2 for IBMi) etc.....
If I'm accurate in describing the IBM Power Server like this, I just might get some of the skeptics to at least think about it a little more.
-Kenneth Graap / NW Natural
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