In-rack FICON DASD

2019-04-14 Thread Christian Svensson
Hi, With the z14 ZR1's 16U reserved 19" space option available I'm curious if anyone has figured out a way to fit everything one needs in one rack? Adding two switches, and a conventional SAN is a no-brainer with space to spare - but what would you pick for FICON EKCD for supporting z/OS load? An

Re: In-rack FICON DASD

2019-04-14 Thread Ken Bloom
Check out the Visara vi-8810 DASD, 2U high, SSD dasd. I can give you more info offline. Regards Ken Kenneth A. Bloom CEO Avenir Technologies Inc /d/b/a Visara International 203-984-2235 bl...@visara.com www.visara.com > On Apr 14, 2019, at 10:42 AM, Christian Svensson > <022ad63487ef-dm

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2019-04-14 Thread Seymour J Metz
What kind of disk dies silently? When our fixed-head disk crashed after multiple power failures it screamed like all the banshees in Hell, and the was no doubt about what was happening. IBM said they could have it back up in two weeks, and I thought they were blowing smokes. They flew in a speci

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2019-04-14 Thread Tom Brennan
I didn't notice any unusual sounds even when standing over the unit. I think at the time there was nothing but res packs left on the 3330's, a holdover which allowed us to cheaply have multiple OS level backups. There was a project going on to move res packs to 3380's which had just arrived, s

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2019-04-14 Thread Gabe Goldberg
From a friend: I believe the head crash story is true. I worked in The Mill and had heard about that. Lending credibility to that story was another: that on hot days in the summer, before the Mill was air conditioned, lanolin used to seep out of the wooden floors and you could easily slip and