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System Requirements for Production:

Batch processing during online time (%)

 

 

 

Disk Mirroring or RAID 5 required?

Mirroring / RAID 5

 

 

High availability configuration required, such as:

HACMP / MIMIX / OMS

HACMP, MIMIX, OMS, or MSCS?

MSCS

 

 

If yes, percentage of total workload that needs to

 

run in failover mode?

 

 

 

Backup Media Required (4mm/8mm/3590/3570/DLT)

 

 

 

Explanations of Some of the Above Questions:

Conference Room Pilot Requirements:

Customers often start with a conference room pilot for functional testing. Sometimes this system becomes the production system but not always.

Additional Information: We would like to know your plans for the start of production since future hardware enhancements may be recommended if appropriate.

System Characteristics

Batch jobs such as reports, MRP runs, general ledger updates, EDI, need to be considered if run during peak online time.

Disk mirroring typically provides high availability on the disk in a UNIX or Windows NT environment. This should be considered for the production environment.

High availability on the CPU can be attained by using IBM’s HACMP product on the UNIX platform, MIMIX (from Lakeview Corp.) or OMS (from Vision Solutions) on the AS/400, or MSCS on the Netfinity. In all cases, a second system is required for implementation.

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