When we were looking at a DS8k, it was cheaper to buy it in the rack vs.
buying the model you could install into the gap in the new z 19-inch
rack CPU. I wonder if the same will be true for the z16?
Tony Thigpen
Tom Brennan wrote on 4/6/23 16:45:
That's how I see it: the ability to add a switch or disk or R42 or
whatever to the unused space. But someone I work with brought up
another possibility, that it could make non-mainframe Linux folks feel
more at home with the hardware.
The 19" racks sure look a lot nicer in a datacenter. I was at one a few
weeks ago with nice neat lines of 19" racks heading off to the horizon,
but in the middle a few z14's were poking their big doors out into the
aisle. One z14 was then replaced with a z16, which unfortunately left a
hole. But hey, that can now be used as a shortcut between the long aisles.
On 4/6/2023 12:35 PM, Mike Schwab wrote:
At least it was a rack you could put next to your other racks.
Previously you had to have a stand alone area. And doing the half
rack allows you to install a small disk system for a 1 rack mainframe
and disk.
On Thu, Apr 6, 2023 at 2:28 PM Pew, Curtis G
<curtis....@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:
On Apr 6, 2023, at 2:21 PM, Alan Altmark
<alan_altm...@us.ibm.com<mailto:alan_altm...@us.ibm.com>> wrote:
It's not a new concept, Enzo. IBM has always had models at the low
end, and this is the 3rd generation in a row to be available in a
19-inch form factor (rack mount).
But isn’t it the first time IBM is advertising “you can put it in
your own rack”? The z14 ZR1 and z15 came in 19” racks, but you had to
use the one from IBM that came with the system.
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ITS Campus Solutions
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