Rex, If you followed the friendly rivalry of Tim and I you'll see that 3TB of Mainframe disk is pretty small in today's form factors. All you need is 16x300GB spindles in RAID-6 config behind an NSC55 and you have your 3TB.
And as for Maint vs new price, well replacing old disk on this basis makes the storage world go round. Set your price and see if HDS, IBM or EMC will step up to the plate with 3TB and Shadowimage. You can also go to Sun and HP if your company has a stronger relationship with them. You can also carve 3TB out of an existing storage controller being used for the Open Systems servers, which would be even cheaper again. Ron > > I would be interested in looking at other ways of being able to do this, > but unfortunately cost is slightly prohibitive. The viewpoint I'm > looking at is that the RVA is bought and paid for, and I would need to > buy 3 TB of disk to replace it. With "the mainframe is going away so > don't spend any money on it" mentality at my shop, I'm pretty much stuck > where I'm at. That is unless somebody can convince me that for the > maintenance costs on my RVA I can get 3 TB of disk along with > near-instantaneous dataset and volume level replication software. If > you can do that, I'm all ears! :-) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
