[geeks] Big Blue Smoke

[Mike Meredith]

On Thursday 11 April 2002 22:38, alex j avriette wrote:
> > For instance, the claims that the z800 is a lot like the
>
> um, help me out here. but isnt a pair (or quartet or octet or whatever)
> of netras and a load balancer a more cost effective and more scalable
> web server?

Uh ... you may be mistaken about just how big a z800 is. That thing has I/O
capacity in spades --- it's expandable to 32 FICON express channels (faster
than fibre channel), and 24 OSA-Express channels (each of which can do
gigabit Ethernet). It would take a *lot* of Netras to be comparable.