Re: Box Upgrade

Cyndi,

I did a 500 to 720 on V4R3 a couple of years ago and it went fine. We added 
more disk and new cards. I just followed the Risc-to-Risc upgrade roadmap and 
all went fine. I was able to get it easily done in a weekend and we had 30 gig 
on the 500 and went to 120 gig on the 720. The best part of the upgrade is the 
reload of all the logical. OS/400 is so smart, it loads the largest logicals 
first and makes smaller logicals subsets of the larger ones, if applicable.

The only gotcha I remember now, is we used a Exabyte Mammouth drive and HAD to 
bring over the slower I/O controller to the new box, so it would work with that 
drive. Later we upgraded the Mammouth drive to work with the faster controller.

HTH,

Jay

p.s. We did 2 full backups prior to the upgrade .... hint, hint, wink, wink.


---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Cyndi Bradberry <CyndiB@IHFA.ORG>
Reply-To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 08:34:26 -0700

>Hi All,
>
>Can anyone give me a confidence level on going from a Model 510 to a 720 in
>one weekend ?  We will be staying at V4R4. 
>
>The plan is (as far as I know) to do a go save 21 on the 510. Shut it down,
>turn on the new box, give it the same IP address and name, add the old tape
>drive then restore everything.
>
>I am very nervous that everything goes well. Are there any gotchas that I
>should be aware of ?
>
>Cyndi
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