RE: Large volume file move -- MIDRANGE-L

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Good thoughts.

-----Original Message-----
From: DrFranken [mailto:midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2018 4:07 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@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.

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