From: "Robert Comer" 

> Sometime after I upgrade I will add in a fax app.  Probably not more
> than 50 users over the life of the machine.  The usage is pretty low
> even on the present box.

Sounds like you wouldn't have any problems to me then.

> The website gives precious little info, the Redbook is less than
> helpful.  Says if you can run R5 on it then R6 is okay too.

Yeah, I've noticed that when it comes to stuff like that. :(

>I like
> the duals to help spread the load when it does get heavy on occasions.

Very true, but I would skimp on memory or disk to get it.

> Sounds like your '04 Turbo Porsche and my '62 Rambler American, 

Not quite, you have all that CPU power that the AS/400 doesn't have.  But
while you have one big engine, I have a lot of little engines.  
The AS/400 would be a horrible SETI cruncher though!

>Of
> course my Notes server is just doing Notes but has been very stable.

I know the division has had problems in the past with their Notes/NT combo,
but it's gotten way better...  (Stability wasn't that great when we first
started.)

- Bob Comer



"Richard B."  wrote in message
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> On Mon, 2 Feb 2004 20:40:39 -0500, "Robert Comer"
>  wrote:
>
> >How many users and/or Notes apps?  My first guess would be you should
have
> >no trouble, especially of your RAID 1 SATA has any cache.  What kind of
> >usage percentage? do you have now?
>
> Sometime after I upgrade I will add in a fax app.  Probably not more
> than 50 users over the life of the machine.  The usage is pretty low
> even on the present box.
>
> >2 singles may get you some failover I suppose.  I really don't have much
> >experience with notes on NT, but the requirements are pretty stout if I
> >remember correctly.
>
> The website gives precious little info, the Redbook is less than
> helpful.  Says if you can run R5 on it then R6 is okay too.  I like
> the duals to help spread the load when it does get heavy on occasions.
>
> >Just for comparison to your NT Server, our AS/400 has a 500Mhz main CPU,
1G
> >of RAM, and 80G across 16 fiber connected SCSI drives. (with cache and HW
> >based RAID)  Where this puppy gains its speed is from the IO processors
and
> >the bus speed...
>
> Sounds like your '04 Turbo Porsche and my '62 Rambler American,  Of
> course my Notes server is just doing Notes but has been very stable.
>
> - Richard

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