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Technology People. Business Results. Getting iReady for Power 7

Sept 9, 2010

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Why Power 7?

Better price/performance $/CPW Better Efficiency Power/Cooling Better Hardware and Software Maintenance Costs Better space efficiency More CPW / U Maintain an upgrade path for your system

Move up to i Incentive/User licensing incentives

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Where to Start?
OS Compatibility with Applications

Hardware Compatibility
Cost Factors IO replacement, maintenance Financial Status of Machine Migration Effort / Downtime Performance

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OS Compatibility with Applications

Power 7 requires 6.1.1 or 7.1

May require Application upgrade prior to or after OS upgrade

ANZOBJCVN to determine whether objects are observable
http://www-912.ibm.com/a_dir/as4ptf.nsf/$$search?openform Search on ANZOBJCVN to find the latest for your release

Can get assessment done by IBM or IBM BP Obtain latest resave of target release
http://www-947.ibm.com/systems/support/i/planning/resave/v7r1.html

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OS Compatibility
OS Jumping 5.2 to 5.4 then to 6.1.1 or 7.1 (no anzobjcvn for 5.2) 5.3 to 6.1.1 then to 7.1 5.4 to 7.1

Could do reload and jump releases also /additional risk, time and $$
Reference material for release upgrades/recovery etc.
http://www01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&dc=DB520&dc=D900&dc=D800&dc=DA900&dc=DA800&q1=V5R4M5 +AND+AS400KBXXYYZZRCH&uid=nas1b6c5ed39e84670648625740f007c74e3&loc=en_US&cs=UTF8&lang=all

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OS Compatibility

Release Upgrade Pre-Install Verification tool https://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/iwm/web/reg/download.do?source=ipvt&S_PKG=dl3&lang=en_US

GUI that will guide you through the upgrade planning and preparation process

More Doc! Getting ready for 6.1.1 and beyond!

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpieces/abstracts/redp4293.html?Open

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Hardware Compatibility
Power 7 requires 6.1.1 or 7.1 May Require a server firmware update on current machine to go to 5.4 or beyond
http://www912.ibm.com/s_dir/slkbase.NSF/c32447c09fb9a1f186256a6c00504227/23c4789ba6f5321886256fd300586b7f ?OpenDocument

May require a HMC code update also

http://www-912.ibm.com/s_dir/slkbase.NSF/DocNumber/408316083

Partition considerations all must be at 6.1.1 or above on P7

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Hardware Compatibility

NO HSL adapters or HSL attached towers supported on P7 May require I/O replacement What isnt supported?
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/hardware/sod2.html

Common things not supported on P7 IOPs, QIC tape drives, twinax, IOP based IOAs, SCSI 10k RPM drives and drives 35Gb and smaller

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Hardware Compatibility

P5-P6 upgrades supported through year end P6-P7 upgrades supported now Link for all planning hw/software and release planning information
http://www-947.ibm.com/systems/support/i/planning/upgrade/futurehdwr.html#power7

Not sure what code is required? Use the prerequisite checker

https://www-912.ibm.com/e_dir/eserverprereq.nsf

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Cost Factors

May have to replace some/all of the current IO to go to P7 Application Vendors may charge for SW on the new system based upon CPW not P group Might need a new HMC OS Licensing and 5250 Requirement

Disposal cost of old system

Economic Sales Replacement tool /Consolidate multiple servers
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Financial Status of Machine Is the machine on lease?

Operating vs. Capital

Purchased? Fully depreciated? Lease sellback Diminimous If you need it you need it

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Migration/Downtime

If you are on a P5 or below and want to maintain some of your I/O consider P6 If you have significant amount of unsupported hardware for P7 / consider P6 If you cant go to 6.1.1 consider P6

If you are on 5.2 or old hardware and can go to 6.1.1 P7 might be a fit
If you are on P6 and want to maintain an upgrade path go to P7
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Migration/Downtime

If you want to take advantage of the P7 benefits planning will be key If you can go to 7.1 consider P7 If you want the latest and greatest go to P7 Migration Consideration: If you are replacing disk unless you use a Mimix type product you will probably be reloading, make sure you have compatible

media types on source and target machine.

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Migration/Downtime

The number of partitions will impact the downtime Skipping releases will increase the downtime The time to perform object conversion will effect downtime Time for saves/restore will effect the downtime Type of migration will impact the downtime hardware/OS can be staged

ahead of time

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Performance

Careful planning required In most cases CPW increases are significant Ensure a commensurate amount of memory is added Review I/O rates and model drive reduction with WLE or other tools http://www-912.ibm.com/wle/EstimatorServlet

Identify and document current bottlenecks to help justify a P7

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Preguntas?

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