iSeries Integrated xSeries: How To Manage Your Windows Servers Better

Presented by Kyle Wurgler, IBM

Meeting will be held on June 18, 2003.

Have you ever had problems managing your Windows Servers? This presentation will show you a better way to manage your Windows Servers integrated with your iSeries. The following areas will be discussed:

1) Virtual Storage Management ** - manage all of your storage requirements together as one versus a managing storage on individual servers.
2) Combined Userid Management **.- manage your userids for both OS/400 and Windows from iSeries navigator, create them once and get both ids created, both passwords created and both sets of security permissions setup.
3) Hot Spare Servers ** - a way that one extra Intel hardware resource can provide hardware failover coverage for like Intel hardware integrated with the iSeries.
4) Effective Change Management/Test Environment ** - how to introduce software updates, bug fixes and service packs into your Windows environment safely and effectively to reduce the chances of outages caused by change.
5) Virtual Ethernet Communications - setup high speed server to server (Windows/Windows, Windows/OS/400 etc.) network communications over the Virtual Ethernet network running on the iSeries system bus.
6) Consolidated Backup and Recovery - consolidate your backups for both OS/400 and your Windows servers into one operation.

** These functions will be demonstrated.