Comments on: What’s the point of the System i blade? http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/iseries/whats-the-point-of-the-system-i-blade/ A Search400.com blog Mon, 30 Jul 2012 20:55:50 +0000 hourly 1 By: tim messink http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/iseries/whats-the-point-of-the-system-i-blade/#comment-456 tim messink Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:32:19 +0000 http://iseries.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/02/19/what-exactly-is-the-point-of-the-system-i-blade/#comment-456 What about the JS22 and storage?, it is my understanding that the JS22 has SAN storage and currently the way the Iseries would see the storage is via the LUNDs, one drive arm per LUND. as far as query goes, if disk arms are busy, performance will drop. With only 32 available, this will be a concern. Additionally, theonly SANs that work are IBM DS4XXX and DS8xxx, which are costly..

]]> By: psu calculator http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/iseries/whats-the-point-of-the-system-i-blade/#comment-455 psu calculator Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:14:22 +0000 http://iseries.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/02/19/what-exactly-is-the-point-of-the-system-i-blade/#comment-455 “We are running SAP on our iSeries. We currently have an i570 that
is nearing capacity on all 16 processors.”

Same here, and our IT is setting up blade server as we speak!

]]> By: Craig Welch http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/iseries/whats-the-point-of-the-system-i-blade/#comment-454 Craig Welch Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:31:58 +0000 http://iseries.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/02/19/what-exactly-is-the-point-of-the-system-i-blade/#comment-454 We are running SAP on our iSeries. We currently have an i570 that is nearing capacity on all 16 processors. I was toying with the idea of perhaps using a blade to run our SAP Portals on which I believe would keep us “legal” for replicating w/Mimix the Blade LPAR w/o purchasing more licenses. I’m thinking that SAP Portals likes a lot of memory and CPU but I think I’d be lucky to fully utilize 2 of the 4 cores with a limitation of 32 GB ram.

Question – does a blade raise your P rating on the i570?

I’d like to hear feedback about if this sounds reasonable or if you have other ideas that might make more sense. I’m not optimistic about the announcements including a 20-way Power6 i570.

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