Seven slots, but you can stack up to four servers to get to 28 slots. Kelly Lipp Chief Technical Officer www.storserver.com 719-266-8777 x7105 STORServer solves your data backup challenges. Once and for all.
-----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Zarnowski Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 2:48 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Performance and migration: AIX vs Linux I didn't read the whole thing, but it looks like there are only 7 I/O slots? Does it have RIO drawers similar to the higher end pSeries? At 03:46 PM 10/23/2009, Kelly Lipp wrote: >I found it! > >http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpapers/pdfs/redp4362.pdf > >Actually a fairly fun read. Way cool technology. I'm sure it will show up in >the pSeries soon anyway so the hardware issues become further blurred. > >Kelly Lipp >Chief Technical Officer >www.storserver.com >719-266-8777 x7105 >STORServer solves your data backup challenges. >Once and for all. > > >-----Original Message----- >From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ads...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Paul >Zarnowski >Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 12:43 PM >To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU >Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] Performance and migration: AIX vs Linux > >Kelly, > >At 11:27 AM 10/23/2009, Kelly Lipp wrote: >>If one reads the IBM documentation on the latest x3850/x3950 M2 one will >>observe that the data paths within that architecture are actually faster than >>in the latest pSeries hardware. > >I'm curious - does your analysis include the number of busses available? I >know that the pSeries has quite a lot of busses to drive all of its adapters. >I'm not as familiar with the xSeries, so I don't know if there is a model >available that has a comparable number of busses. It's not just the speed, >it's the overall throughput that most concerns me. Sure, I could have more >smaller xSeries servers, but then I would have more resource baskets to manage. > >Thanks for sharing. >..Paul > > > >-- >Paul Zarnowski Ph: 607-255-4757 >Manager, Storage Services Fx: 607-255-8521 >719 Rhodes Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853-3801 Em: p...@cornell.edu -- Paul Zarnowski Ph: 607-255-4757 Manager, Storage Services Fx: 607-255-8521 719 Rhodes Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853-3801 Em: p...@cornell.edu
