Re: LPAR Question

I have an LPAR question for you BP's and experts on the list. I have seen messages about how you should work with an experienced BP to do your configs etc... My question is that only necessary in a "real world" situation or is it always necessary because LPAR is so complicated? I can see where if I had 2 or 3 locations running on LPAR and they all needed backups etc. that there would be hardware issues to consider, but that is not our situation.

We want to replace a pure QA box with something like a Model 800 or 810, but we would like to LPAR that box so that we can do stuff like load beta releases of OS/400 on the second partition and also just so that we can do more testing of our products in an LPAR environment. This box doesn't really "matter". We would not be doing much for backups or other things, we just want to be able to do the LPAR. Is this something where we can just do it ourselves or do we really need to plan for it?

We do our boxes on lease through PartnerWorld, but we can contract with a local BP on services if it is necessary.