Just a few more random thoughts....
How should he address the IFS object ownership issues ?
How should he address the super-slow backup times he's about to receive ?
What's the fastest way to transfer the objects in ?
Hopefully with iASP. Maybe you have tested backing up 20 million objects from an iASP.
How should he address the next conversion that takes 20 times as long with a backup/restore ?
IBM i is great but with IFS/PC objects it's not the right hammer.
IBMi, NAS/SAN, sleep at night because my backups actually completed 😊
Regards,
Richard Schoen
Director of Document Management
e. richard.schoen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
p. 952.486.6802
w. helpsystems.com
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date: Tue, 25 Sep 2018 17:07:22 -0400
from: DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: Large volume file move
Fewer moving parts.
Fewer connections.
Simpler disaster recovery.
Know how your backup works.
Hardware price is NOT that much cheaper, IF it even is on Windows.
Less rack space, less cooling, less power.
I get it best of breed works much of the time. But I've seen one IBM i system become one IBM i plus 5 windows plus 20 Linux plus switches and extra admins and complicated firewall rules and load balancers and CRAP!!! That guy quit! Today they are slowly moving back to One IBM i with a single Linux hosting publicly accessible images. Only one other nearly unused Linux box to move back to IBM i.
It works. It's reliable. It's predicable. It's ONE machine to update with patches. It's ONE machine to know how it works. When it IPLs everything starts, nobody has to go to a dozen other boxes to restart services or reboot them etc.
And if it DOES have an issue it calls home about a power supply or drive or ... and that's built in, no additional monitoring software from a third party is required.
IBM i for when you like to sleep at night.
Just a few random thoughts.
- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis
www.Frankeni.com
www.iDevCloud.com - Personal Development IBM i timeshare service.
www.iInTheCloud.com - Commercial IBM i Cloud Hosting.
On 9/25/2018 3:52 PM, Rob Berendt wrote:
I know that Richard is coming off as highly sarcastic but I too have
to wonder why the big push to move this stuff to IBM i. We've done
file serving from IBM i. Normally Windows beats IBM i in file serving
hands down. Even on older hardware you could be using the same drives
and all but stick in an IPCS card in there and load Windows on it and
it would smoke file serving from the predecessors of IBM i.
IBM i has touted newer versions have caught up some but they still
have a way to go.
General policy here is that IBM i is not to be used as a file server
unless there's a really compelling reason to do so, such as CPYTOIMPF
type stuff.
Rob Berendt
midrange.com
