Re: Can one have SANs on a P05 system?

[Roberto José Etcheverry Romero <yggdrasil.raiker@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jim

Isn't the 64Gb RAM limitation a bit of a showstopper towards having
multiple LPARs? VIOS consumes 4~8Gb and then each LPAR needs its own
healthy amount of RAM....

Roberto

On Fri, 12 Nov 2021 at 12:59, Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Sure.  Why not?  Requires a fibre card and depending on if you are running
> VIOS or not two fibre and ethernet cards, although this requires Fibre
> switches.  A stand alone partition could direct connect to the SAN
> (assuming a lower end SAN that accepts direct connect)
>
> I have multiple customers using SAN boot for VIOS and IBM i, AIX, and Linux
> on P05 boxes.  (Agile has one too)
>
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> On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 9:53 AM a4g atl <a4ginatl2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > Darryl Freinkel.
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