Re: Blades and AIX

We have seen a noticeable difference in performance between blades and rack mounted solutions. The blades appear to be less powerful even with comparable peripherals.
This is absolutely a case of YMMV.

"Willeat, Todd" <Todd.Willeat@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
My experience is from the storage side. We had some issues getting the
AIX blades to recognize our EMC storage until we got a specific version
of firmware loaded on the HBAs. All of our blades came with QLogic HBAs
- not sure if that made any difference. Also, our AIX team was getting
complaints that the blades were pretty slow as far as performance. But,
these were not the Power6 blades. I think they were the JS21 blades...

-----Original Message-----
From: IBM AIX Discussion List [mailto:aix-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Grant Harders
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 8:27 AM
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Subject: Blades and AIX

Hello all,

We are currently running most of our applications on pSeries AIX boxes,
but
management here is considering moving everything to blades, including
IBM
JS22 (Power6) Blades. I have never worked with blades and was wondering
if
any of you would be willing to share your war stories about them? I
would be
especially interested to know how well AIX runs on blades.

Thanks.

Grant Harders
System Administrator
University at Albany



Edward Long

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