Up until now I've been talking about System i Integration with BladeCenter and System x. I'd like to shift gears a little and share a most wonderful experience, but first I'll give a little history on the matter.
Back in October of 2002 I attended the
Common Conference in Denver, CO. The IBM BladeBlade Center Chassis had recently been announced, and for those who don't know, the IBM BladeCenter Chassis was designed by the same group that is responsible for bringing us the wonderful products that we all know and love called the System i, System p, and System z. So, I was intently listening about this wonderful new product that was going to change everything, and I remember hearing about the future.....runing the AS/400 on a BladeServer. Well, I personally saw that happen a few weeks ago.
The JS12 Blade was installed in a BladeCenter S Chassis, right next to 2 HS21 XM Blades running VI3 Enterprise. What a great site to see - Virtualization for all! The JS12 Blade has a single Power processor on it. 2 - 146 GB SAS drives, this is where VIOS is installed. Then, basically a System i Virtual machine running on it - How Cool is That!!!!!
