Rob,
Since the migration from Power5 and Power6 to Power7 leaves anything but
SAS/Fibre attached devices behind, the likelyhood that you can get a
good temporary test bed is very high. Yes you'll share tape devices and
such for awhile, but even if it's more than that, a migration plan can
be made to accomplish the migration or re-implementation with proper
prior planning.
Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects
On 11/1/2012 8:03 AM, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
I agree with you Charles. But...
1 - If IBM publishes the 'migration' at
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v7r1m0/topic/rzamc/rzamc1.htm
then that must be another officially supported path also.
2 - Not everyone has multi lpar or multi box environments to test.
Granted, this person will have a new system which could be an ideal test
environment. Perhaps we don't know all the details, like is the new
system really functional without taking some critical hardware out of the
old one and putting it into the new one?
Rob Berendt
-- IBM Certified System Administrator - IBM i 6.1 Group Dekko Dept
1600 Mail to: 2505 Dekko Drive Garrett, IN 46738 Ship to: Dock 108
6928N 400E Kendallville, IN 46755 http://www.dekko.com From: Charles
Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx> To: Midrange Systems Technical
Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Date: 11/01/2012 08:48 AM
Subject: Re: V5r4 Upgrade Sent by: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
IBM's officially supported migration path... Upgrade the v5r4 server
to 7.1 save it, and restore to the new box. I personally would take
advantage of the fact that you've got the second box there and would
get it up and running ahead of time to do some testing. Then on
cutover weekend, I'd restore the latest 7.1 save from the old box.
I've done the above multiples times in my 16+ years on the platform. I
have never, nor would I ever try to move from the v5r4 box directly to
7.1 without experienced help. At my current employer, we replaced 100+
v4r5 systems with v5r4 ones. But we paid IBM and and BP to come up
with and implement the process. Even with experienced help, I wouldn't
be willing to do this without testing the process and my applications
on the new box first. Charles On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Billy
Waters <bwaters@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> We are in the planning stage of migrating from V5r4 to V7.x loaded to a
> new server. Is anyone willing to share their time line related to
testing
> this process? My boss is under the impression we can do this "cutover"
over
> the weekend without any prior testing on the new server / OS. Thanks in
> advance for your assistance.
> Billy Waters
>
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