Agreed. The disaster we were told to worry about (until recently) was that we were under the airport flight path. This year they started a two year renovation of the student union building just up the hill. Since my real experience with minor outages involved fumble fingered electricians, I began having concerns about plumbers and/or backhoes. I want two sysplexed z9-BC at two locations with two dasd boxes and flash(y)copy. Most of the year, I'd run z/OS.e on the offsite one and do housekeeping. The offsite would have around 15 to 20 percent of our current capacity (z800-OB1). The onsite would have 80 percent which is all we need except for less than a dozen peak days a year. Then with capacity upgrade on demand, I'd cover those dozen days and/or the need for the offsite to take over the whole load.
But, I think I just spec'd about 2 million, and that'll buy a lot of winder$. > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Craddock, Chris > Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2006 2:47 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Storage Philosophy Question > > > But earthquake is a possibility, not a large one and our > building is > > short with the machine room underground. > > I would be a lot more concerned about a subterranean machine > room than an earthquake. Water has an uncanny knack for > finding the lowest point as any owner of a basement would > know. Its hard to flood anything on the 2nd floor without > knocking the head off a fire sprinkler :-) > > CC > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
