Re: Can one have SANs on a P05 system?

["Larry \"DrFranken\" Bolhuis" <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In my experience this is spot on. You can do a few small LPARs but 
that's about it on the P05 machines before the 64GB limit rears it's head.
	- L

On 11/12/2021 11:30 AM, Roberto José Etcheverry Romero wrote:
> 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)
> >
> > --
> > Jim Oberholtzer
> > Chief Technical Architect
> > Agile Technology Architects
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 9:53 AM a4g atl <a4ginatl2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Darryl Freinkel.
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