14.5.1.3.2 BladeCenter S and JS12 Express
The IBM i operating system is now supported on a JS12 Express in a BladeCenter S. The
system is limited to 12 SAS DASD and the following charts try to characterize the performance
we achieved during experiments with the Commercial Performance Workload in the IBM lab.
Using a JS22 Express in a BladeCenter H connected to a DS4800, we limited the resources in
order to get a comparison to the SAS DASD used in the BladeCenter S.
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M25 572C 12 SAS Dasd Mirrored 16 GB memory 2 processors
M25 57B8 12 SAS DASD Mirrored 16 GB memory 2 Processors
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M25 572C 12 SAS Dasd Mirrored 16 GB memory 2 processors
M25 57B8 12 SAS DASD Mirrored 16 GB memory 2 Processors
