Just a side comment on the 3466: The "no upgrade" dilemma seems to have come early for me. We have a 3466 with one drawer of 9GB SSA (JBOD). We were hoping to reconfigure the DASD to a RAID5 configuration. The story that I am getting is that a RAID5 set of 9GB drives is not a supported configuration. O.K., then we chunk the 9GB drives and put in a drawer of 18's which do support RAID5, right? Nope. The "configuration" (the software that IBM uses to quote you an upgrade) does not support removing the 9's. Well, the last resort is to add more 9's (not what we want to do). But no!! The 9's are no longer available!! ARGHHH!!!! Phil Bone Sr. Systems Consultant Network Services, Infrastructure Management Office: 706.596.5928 Fax: 706.596.5950 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Joe Faracchio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 7:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Preferred server? ADSM on NT vs ADSM on AIX Hal, Do look at the price comparison of a 3466 as a 'total solution' option. What I mean is , don't dismiss it as just another AIX box. It includes a license for 5000 clients (or at least it used to!) And may even be cheaper as a whole than buying all the parts yourself. The down side is that it will reach a point where IBM will say: "Go ahead and run it into the ground but we won't upgrade it anymore." and that point is usually (?) around 3 or so years ... ... joe.f. Joseph A Faracchio, Systems Programmer, UC Berkeley On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Riddle, Hal wrote: > Any thoughts on which would be the preferred server and why. We presently > run ADSM 3.1 on an AIX SP node to back up AIX, NT, Novell, and Vax servers. > Have absolutely no problems with the present arrangement other than the > lease on the AIX stuff will run out in the next year. Management wants to > look at other options and since we have NT servers on site, their > suitablilty wa sraised. The NT's we presently use are the IBM Netfinity 5000 > w/h Xeon processors and a similiar box would be used for ADSM. >
