iSeries Integrated xSeries: How To Manage Your Windows
Servers Better

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.