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RE: SYSLOG: TCP/IP crashes when sending many messages

Zvi Kave — 2010-02-09T02:49:17-06:00

From: Dennis Lovelady <iseries@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: RE: SYSLOG: TCP/IP crashes when sending many messages To: "'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Monday, February 8, 2010, 5:21 AM (Your STRTCPIFC / ENDTCPIFC sequenc...

RE: Power7

Jacob Anderson — 2010-02-09T00:30:23-06:00

Hi Nathan, First pricing. Yeah, the list appears to be $6k - $7k. Then you add a tape backup, more memory, and then the OS. The software from IBM is very expensive. Then there is the maintenance and warranty costs per year - windows updates are free, but w...

Re: Power7

Lukas Beeler — 2010-02-09T00:26:50-06:00

You're comparing apples to oranges here - the x3650 M2 is a two-socket, 8 core machine, the Power 750 is a four socket, 32 core machine. You'd need to compare it against x3850 M3/x3950 M3. The Power 520 8203-E4A is a one-socket, one core machine, and can ...

Re: Power7

Lukas Beeler — 2010-02-09T00:22:23-06:00

And a decent config (16GB RAM, RAID, 6 Disks, LTO4) costs a lot more: For comparison purposes, 1CHF = 1 US$ 26kUS$ for the box the alone, add 20kUS$ for the licensing (30 users, in this case). The configuration assumes that the user has a OS license he ca...

Re: Power7

Lukas Beeler — 2010-02-09T00:15:04-06:00

Price, price, price, price! Going to 6 arms and with the RAID controller adds 10k to the price tag. Customers also don't see why they would need to pay 30k$ to get a machine that runs decently. It appears to me that you don't care about pricing, probably ...

RE: USB Hard Drive

Jacob Anderson — 2010-02-09T00:10:41-06:00

So this is to connect an external HD via USB, as you mention, which is what we are trying to do. Your post reads as if this can be done. Yet another post says *no in v6r1. Not sure where to go with that. Using a USB external drive for backup is significant...

RE: USB Hard Drive

Jacob Anderson — 2010-02-09T00:06:12-06:00

We're looking at about 200 GB uncompressed. FTP, NFS, both of these could be options, but I was hoping that a system manufactured in 2007 could mount a USB hard drive and write data to it. My cell phone can do that, so why is it that a $22,000 server can't...

RE: USB Hard Drive

Evan Harris — 2010-02-08T23:17:29-06:00

You'd get pretty close if you set them up as an IASP - just a question of whether the hardware can actually be physically removed. I supposed that's not too different in theory to swappable between machines. Regards Evan Harris -----Original Message----- F...

RE: USB Hard Drive

Evan Harris — 2010-02-08T22:29:33-06:00

What, when USB becomes "Mainstream" ? :) TCP/IP all over again. Regards Evan Harris -----Original Message----- From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Pete Massiello Sent: Tuesday, 9 February 2010 4:36 p....

RE: USB Hard Drive

Don — 2010-02-08T21:50:53-06:00

Pete, Any idea how easily we're going to be able to remove SSD's without having to IPL?? IE, just "vary" them *off and unplug in concept... DR2

RE: USB Hard Drive

Pete Massiello — 2010-02-08T21:36:20-06:00

It won't work at V6R1, and it won't work at V7R1 either, but we can expect it on a future release. Pete Pete Massiello iTech Solutions http://www.itechsol.com Add iTech Solutions on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=126431824120 Add iTech Sol...

RE: USB Hard Drive

Don — 2010-02-08T21:20:34-06:00

Norm, et al, I may have misread the previous post that the USB was attached internally on the chassis...if I did, my error. I don't have that kinduva box to open the back and look inside in front of me tonite. But as for saving libraries and objects to a U...

RE: USB Hard Drive

Norm Dennis — 2010-02-08T20:56:13-06:00

Is it possible to save your backup to the NFS or QNTC, the save to the USB with an OS that supports USB? How big is the backup you're looking at? Norm Dennis -----Original Message----- From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxx...

Re: Power7

Nathan Andelin — 2010-02-08T19:56:47-06:00

I'm also skeptical about your configuration supporting 50K users. Sun's latest entry in the SAP SD benchmark processed 918 dialog steps (server hits) per second, using an 8-CPU, 48-core server. That would only allow each user an average of 1 hit each, eve...

Re: Power7

Nathan Andelin — 2010-02-08T19:24:14-06:00

Jacob, I'm a little skeptical about your pricing. An entry-level model 520 starts at $6,345: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/hardware/520/browse_i.html Also, I'm not sure that you can compare Windows and MS SQL Server STD editions to IBM i DB - which i...

RE: USB Hard Drive

Don — 2010-02-08T19:23:59-06:00

Re: Power7

John Jones — 2010-02-08T19:16:33-06:00

I was looking at the SAP SD benchmark, just released by IBM, for the new Power Server model 750, and comparing it to the one that IBM released for their x3650 M2 server. The net result was that the model 750 offered 3.34 times more throughput. My next tho...

Re: USB Hard Drive

DrFranken — 2010-02-08T19:13:12-06:00

RE: Power7

Roger Harman — 2010-02-08T19:07:36-06:00

What!! No Twinax? How I'm supposed to connect my 5251? Next, I suppose you are going to tell me that IBM will announce the demise of POP!! Regards, Luis Rodriguez IBM Certified Systems Expert - eServer i5 iSeries -- This is the Midrange Systems Technical ...

Re: Power7

Luis Rodriguez — 2010-02-08T19:03:42-06:00

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