Re: i5 Youngsters

Having just put VMWare through it's paces next to a beautiful i5, I can wish for VMWare on the i5. Right now, there are 2 - 4 way IBM servers running, with 40 GB RAM connected to a SAN. 17+ windows servers run on the hardware with dynamic, live failover between the boxes. Citrix is running on some of those servers. All desktops have iSeries Navigator running. Truly a mind bending assembly. The underlying OS for the VMware is Linux. Makes one think about i5 possibilities.

Best regards,

Fritz Hayes



Aaron Bartell wrote:

1) OK. What is it? Seriously. Why would you prefer a single machine w/LPAR

to multiple "pizza-box" servers?

Note that I have NOT done the multiple LPAR thing, but am simply acting on
what I have read. Yes, I know that is dangerous, so thanks for any and all
light anyone can shed.

Can you control/share resources on multiple pizza boxes like I believe you
can on the iSeries? Can you get processing on demand? The amount of power
consumption would be less more than likely - that is something more
organizations are starting to consider. I am sure there are other benefits
that I am not entertaining.

I guess I would like to ask you the same question as you seem to like the
multiple pizza box approach - what is it that you feel makes them better
than System i other than price?

2) And now, for all your reasons given for #1. Can you do that w/VMWare?

To date my experiences with VMWare sessions has been limited to some
business use, but mostly personal use. I think a VMWare vs. System i LPAR
would be a great article for somebody other than myself to write - I would
read it.

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com

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[mailto:midrange-nontech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Walden H.
Leverich
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 2:55 PM
To: Non-Technical Discussion about the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: RE: i5 Youngsters

I do see value in having all your processes/servers running on a single machine using multiple LPARs.

1) OK. What is it? Seriously. Why would you prefer a single machine
w/LPAR to multiple "pizza-box" servers?

2) And now, for all your reasons given for #1. Can you do that w/VMWare?

-Walden