Tony,>>>With advanced high availability features including redundant processor power modules and Hot Plug components, these servers deliver the highestl evels of fault tolerance in their class. The ProLiant 6000 supports up to four Pentium® II Xeon(tm) 450 MHz processors with integrated 512KB or 1 MB Level-2 cache, is expandable to 8 GB of ECC protected memory, and features up to 218.4GB of internal storage capacity. The ProLiant 5500 supports up to four Pentium® II Xeon(tm) 450 MHz processors with integrated 512KB, 1 MB or 2 MB Level-2 cache, and is expandable to 4 GB of ECC protected memory. It is available in tower or rack models to fit easily into any environment.
Fault Tolerant Smart Array Controllers For the highest levels of fault tolerance, performance and capacity when deploying ProLiant 7000 and 6000 servers with attached storage systems, Compaq also announced today an upgrade for its PCI-based Smart Array 3100ES Controllers. To prevent data loss and ensure uninterrupted access to mission critical data, ProLiant 6000 and 7000 server customers can purchase a Smart Array Software Upgrade and an additional Smart Array 3100ES Controller for automatic, online failover and continuous operation during the replacement of a failed controller. With the Smart Array Software Upgrade, administrators can also reconfigure RAID levels and change the stripe size of logical drives - without taking the server offline.<<<
Could you comment on this announcement wrt to your RAS meter and how close are we to being able to replace some of your MVS systems with these systems?
Perhaps you could also comment vis-a-vis PAS - with the emphasis on the P (Pricing, Availability and Services).
Regards,
Mary
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