Re: LPARS

["John Taylor" <john.taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Leif,

Could the answer to your question lie in the following excerpt from the same
article:

"Release migration. Partitions may be used to move an operating system or
application software to updated versions. The new software can be tested in
isolation before being deployed in a production environment. (This is
subject to the limitation that a release may not be supported on particular
hardware)."

Is V3R7 currently supported on the class of hardware that provides LPAR?
Maintaining support for older OS releases would be quite costly I think.
Everytime that they introduced a new hardware component they'd have to go
back and PTF each OS version.


John Taylor
Canada

----- Original Message -----
From: "Leif Svalgaard" <leif@leif.org>



> Just re-read the article. It says in there:
> "Previous releases are not supported in a logical partition".
> Now that is strange. If the LPAR can run Linux why not V4R1?
> or V3R7? for that matter.
>
> What would be the technical reason for this restriction?
> Lifting it would be great for all those shops that stay on
> older releases for whatever reasons. Also great for
> software developers for testing and ensuring backwards
> compatibility.
>


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