Re: DS8000 migration stories?

2011-10-04 Thread Steve Dover
Jan, We migrated from EMC Symmetrix with 8 Escon channels to a DS6800 with 2 Ficon channels. Performance is way better than I expected. And I second the vote for FDRPAS. It worked so well, I was unsure that it actually did anything, but it worked exactly as they advertise. You can control

Re: DS8000 migration stories?

2011-10-04 Thread Hal Merritt
migration stories? Hi, Mgt is discussing replacement of EMC with DS8000 of a customer who is insourced. Besides the financial aspect (which fortunately is not my problem) there is of course the technical aspect. Any succes stories? Horror stories? - about migration - about performance ( I/Os

Re: DS8000 migration stories?

2011-10-04 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2011-10-04 16:32, Hal Merritt pisze: IMHO, the DS8000 family of machines is awesome. You're gonna love it. The DS8000 family is powerful, and that means that there is a learning curve. Hit IBM or the business partner for conversion services to be included with the price. With the right

Re: DS8000 migration stories?

2011-10-03 Thread Knutson, Sam
, act bold, start simple, grow fast... -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Jan Vanbrabant Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 12:54 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: DS8000 migration stories? Hi, Mgt is discussing replacement

DS8000 migration stories?

2011-09-30 Thread Jan Vanbrabant
Hi, Mgt is discussing replacement of EMC with DS8000 of a customer who is insourced. Besides the financial aspect (which fortunately is not my problem) there is of course the technical aspect. Any succes stories? Horror stories? - about migration - about performance ( I/Os,response time)

Re: DS8000 migration stories?

2011-09-30 Thread Pinnacle
On 9/30/2011 12:54 PM, Jan Vanbrabant wrote: Hi, Mgt is discussing replacement of EMC with DS8000 of a customer who is insourced. Besides the financial aspect (which fortunately is not my problem) there is of course the technical aspect. Any succes stories? Horror stories? - about migration

Re: DS8000 migration stories?

2011-09-30 Thread Dana Mitchell
Jan, We migrated from two Hitachi subsystems to two DS8100's. Performance was a very noticable improvement mostly due to going from Escon to Ficon. Migration was easy since the deal included a tempory license for IBM's TDMF. Moved 5 images in a sysplex and removed all the old DASD without

Re: DS8000 migration stories?

2011-09-30 Thread Jan Vanbrabant
THANKS Dana! Have a nice WE. Jan On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 8:23 PM, Dana Mitchell mitchd...@gmail.com wrote: Jan, We migrated from two Hitachi subsystems to two DS8100's. Performance was a very noticable improvement mostly due to going from Escon to Ficon. Migration was easy since the deal

Re: DS8000 migration stories?

2011-09-30 Thread Cosby, Bob
- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Pinnacle Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 1:08 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: DS8000 migration stories? On 9/30/2011 12:54 PM, Jan Vanbrabant wrote: Hi, Mgt is discussing replacement of EMC with DS8000

Re: DS8000 migration stories?

2011-09-30 Thread Ted MacNEIL
2.) This architecture exploits Parallel Access Volume (PAV) functionality; we have 48 PAV's defined to each Logical Control Unit (LCU) of which we have 16 LCU's; on our Payroll processing weekend Out of how many volumes? 256? I have I see 46 of the 48 PAV's defined to one (1) logical

Re: DS8000 migration stories?

2011-09-30 Thread Cosby, Bob
@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: DS8000 migration stories? 2.) This architecture exploits Parallel Access Volume (PAV) functionality; we have 48 PAV's defined to each Logical Control Unit (LCU) of which we have 16 LCU's; on our Payroll processing weekend Out of how many volumes? 256? I have I see 46