IBM i Storage and DASD Hardware

Should we upgrade storage on our current server or replace the whole system?

If the server's processor and memory still have headroom and the bottleneck is genuinely storage-related, expanding DASD or adding SAN attachment is usually the faster and cheaper fix. Pull current ASP disk busy statistics before assuming storage is the actual cause of a performance issue.

Answer

If the server's processor and memory still have headroom and the bottleneck is genuinely storage-related, expanding DASD or adding SAN attachment is usually the faster and cheaper fix. Pull current ASP disk busy statistics before assuming storage is the actual cause of a performance issue.

If storage, processor, and memory are all constrained at once, that is usually a sign the whole server has reached its practical ceiling, and a server replacement conversation makes more sense than a series of piecemeal upgrades.

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