Ned, We migrated from HDS to DS6800 last year.
1. FDRPAS - great product easy to use. 2. Get the Slideout PC monitor. Elso you will need a table next to it for the monitor. 3. Get the VPN connection for alerts, failed drives, etc...IBM will mail a new DDM (drive) and you installed it. 4. The 146 GB drives are solid, don't know about the 300 GB. 5. The FICON will blew your socks off. One of the biggest performance improvement since going ICDA. Made sharaable accros all LPARS. Get two FICON cards for elimination of single point of failure. 6. Use IBM TOOL Capacity Magic to select you disk configuration and plan for Poing in time copy upfront. By mizing volume across subsystems. 7. I have only used MOD-9 so don't know about MOD-54 8. 1750-511 is our device model. 9. New issue. Use a confurable router/switch. Not the cheap plug and play ones. Go with 3COM or CISCO. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ned Hedrick Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 7:48 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: IBM DS6000 experiences We are considering upgrading our DASD to IBM's DS6000. Our current environment is ESCON-attached RAMAC3. Proposed is the DS6000 and an upgrade to FICON. (Host system is a z900) Everything I've seen points to significantly better performance, higher reliability and improved management. However, I'd like to verify with installations who are actually using the DS6000. I'm particularly interested in comments about performance, and any issues to watch for in implementation. Thanks in advance! Ned Hedrick Sr. Mgr., Systems Administration ACI Worldwide This e-mail message and any attachments may contain confidential, proprietary or non-public information. This information is intended solely for the designated recipient(s). If an addressing or transmission error has misdirected this e-mail, please notify the sender immediately and destroy this e-mail. Any review, dissemination, use or reliance upon this information by unintended recipients is prohibited. Any opinions expressed in this e-mail are those of the author personally. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
