Yeah. That's why I mentioned the mainframe aspect. I'm not too keen on running large portions of our AD forest on it. There was a murmuring among key higher-ups here to do the same thing while running vmware on mainframe LPARs. That was nipped in the bud after we (network/server people) presented a cost comparison analysis on servers and MS licensing vs. vmware, *nix, et cetera. Eric, your talking about just the storage/access aspect. It comes down to a question of whether the initial savings is worth the potential problems of a single piece of hardware handling multiple critical services.
-----Original Message----- From: Schwartz, Jim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 10:01 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: the IBM Shark You're going to carve up the disks and share spindles with "critcal" servers running high intensive databases? <snicker> Good luck. -----Original Message----- From: Hansen, Eric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 10:52 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: the IBM Shark We plan on using it for our 17 "critical" servers and to cut the prices of all the disk we have. Mostly Windows/SQL, and some AIX and linux. Out the door we were going to start with 3tb so the rumor of a 3.36tb performance boundary made me a little wary, but I'm not sure if there is any truth to it. e- -----Original Message----- From: John Allhiser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 8:47 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: the IBM Shark As DASDI for os390/Zos mainframes they're great. Not aware of the exact performance boundary. What do you plan to use them for. -----Original Message----- From: Hansen, Eric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 9:29 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: OT: the IBM Shark Is anyone here happen to be running a IBM shark or possibly a Hitachi 9900 series SAN? We are looking at both of these and I have heard rumors that the shark has a performance boundary of 3.36 TB. Just curious. e- _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
