Re: New Power 7 - Building a Case

Rob,

I agree on the need to be current technology-wise. What many people do not
realize is that advances in software mean, many times, advances in
productivity and, also, many times, allow us to provide better services
to our users.

Unfortunately, many bean-counters (I really love that expression!) are of
the opinion of "you are already giving some results with the resources you
have, so don't make us spend our hard-earned money...". The idea is to show
them that a new system can, in fact, have a lower cost (maintenance fees,
power consumption, etc), something that can appear in a balance sheet.

Regards,

Luis Rodriguez
IBM Certified Systems Expert — eServer i5 iSeries
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On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 10:09 AM, <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Maintenance
Power
Ancient IBM paper on the economic value of rapid response time.
Current technology. Compare to how many of them would run an IBM AT with
a text based word processor. They both produce documents. Current
hardware allows current software. This allows you to keep pace with fixes
and patches to improve security and reliability.

Some managers groove on 90+% utilization. If they had factories with
lower than that they would close plants, merge them together, plan
multiple shifts and have x people do their work by going module to module
as others go to the restroom - practically what we do here. However our
busiest lpar: % CPU used . . . . . . . : 8.1. That's eight point
one.





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From: Luis Rodriguez <luisro58@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 08/31/2011 09:42 AM
Subject: Re: New Power 7 - Building a Case
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Brian,

Ask your BP about the maintenance HDW fees for a Power 7 box against your
current system. IIRC, they tend to be lower for equivalent systems.

Also, maybe IBM's site has some papers and so.

Regards,

Luis Rodriguez
IBM Certified Systems Expert — eServer i5 iSeries
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On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Brian Piotrowski <
bpiotrowski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi All,

We're in the process of getting quotes, etc. for a new Power-7 box (to
replace our 520 - Power 4/5? - we purchased new in 2006). I'm trying to
build a case for our senior management group as to why we need it.

Our current system (which is about 1200CPW pooled) is always running in

the

99% cpu utilization - I can't recall really seeing it in anything lower

than

high 80s. We're also doing major improvements to our codebase so having

the

extra horsepower to run it will be a benefit.

Does anyone have any resources that can help me in my cause? I don't

think

management will buy the argument of the CPU utilization on it's own.

I did receive an article earlier this week on the benefits of upgrading.
Maybe I'll raid that article as well to see what useful information I

can

harvest.

BTW - I did Google various phrases, but nothing really came up to give

me a

sound argument.


Thankee-sai!

/b;

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