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
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Paul Zarnowski
Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 2:48 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
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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:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf
>Of Paul Zarnowski
>Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 12:43 PM
>To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT 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
>
>
>
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