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Glenn, is your question "what release can I run on which server?" or "how do I upgrade and preserve my serial number?"

Some things that might help you:

1. IBM maintains a web page which shows which Power and System i models work with which releases of IBM i:
http://www-947.ibm.com/systems/support/i/planning/upgrade/osmapping.html

2. As Larry pointed out, IBM doesn't offer an upgrade from POWER5 directly to POWER7. There are some upgrade paths from POWER5 to POWER6 (from which you can upgrade to POWER7) but I believe that these upgrades will be withdrawn from marketing May 27, 2011.

3. Going back to Jerry's original question, I wonder if what someone said was that since upgrades from POWER5 to POWER6 go away May 27, in June or later you can't two-step upgrade a POWER5 box to POWER7 and keep your serial number. Maybe "POWER7" and "IBM i version 7" got confused in someone's memory. Or maybe it's me that's confused. Happens all the time.

4. If you don't care about preserving your server's serial number, you can replace your POWER5+ server with a new POWER7 server running IBM i 6.1 or 7.1 now, or in June, or whenever you like.

-Dan R., IBM Power Systems Tech Specialist

On 2/15/2011 9:21 AM, Glenn Hopwood wrote:
Larry,

Can you expand on this? We are currently on a Power 5+ and would like to
get to a Power 7. I don't see a technical reason why we can't go
straight to the 7...

Glenn

On 2/11/2011 11:16 PM, DrFranken wrote:
If you have a POWER5 or 5+ machine you can already run IBM i 7.1 so
you're good. But on the other hand if you want to get up to POWER7 then
you would need to either upgrade to POWER6 and THEN to POWER7 (two
steps) to keep the same serial number or you buy a new POWER7 and get a
new serial number.


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