Well, I don't have a lot of experience with the "T-Systems", but I do have
quite a bit with other FLEX-ES based systems and can say the reliability
has been very good. I would guess that our customers had less than one
unplanned (at all hardware or FLEX-ES related) outage every 2 years. We've
had a number of users who have run over a year without even an IPL, even
including developers who typically do "strange things" to their systems.
I won't claim a System X box is capable of as high an availability number
as a System Z box is, but they are very capable of availability that is
very acceptable for most small to medium businesses. Really taking
advantage of the redundancy available in a System Z takes more planning and
$$ than most small business want to put into it. For example, very few of
these customers feel it worthwhile to invest in a second OSA or FICON
adapter which will act purely as a 'backup', As long as the
'non-redundant' z9 BC level of availability is sufficient, then the System
X boxes are very comparable/competitive.
Mike
C. M. (Mike) Hammock
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zFrame & IBM zSeries Solutions
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With the last reply, I guess the question needs to be asked ,What was
the mtfb of the "t systems"?
Are there any subscribers here who are familiar with these systems??
Mace
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How else can a company maintain a high operating system MTBF, unless
they do what they can to keep it off of cheap and/or unknown hardware?
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