Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment

2012-08-31 Thread Elpida Tzortzatos.
Shmuel, There is a new architecture for writing and reading data to/from "Flash Express" but that architecture is not currently externalized. Elpida Tzortzatos elp...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment

2012-08-31 Thread Elpida Tzortzatos.
John, Thank you for your comments, I do agree with you IPLing z/OS from Flash is something worth considering. Elpida Tzortzatos elp...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment

2012-08-30 Thread Elpida Tzortzatos.
xployed at the SSD level, and over provisioning, additional z write reduction algorithms were used to extend the life of the SSDs. Elpida Tzortzatos elp...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access ins

Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment

2012-08-30 Thread Elpida Tzortzatos.
Flash storage is integrated on zEC12 as PCI Express (PCIe) attached RAID 10 cards which plug as cable connected pairs in the I/O expansion drawer -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to li

Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment

2012-08-30 Thread Elpida Tzortzatos.
. Elpida Tzortzatos elp...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN