RE: RE: Operating System Levels

In my environment I have 8 LPARs, the primary is V5R1, 3 LPARs at V5R2,
and the rest at V5R3. Talk about a split personality....  

Mark Hammett
TTS - ENG - ST - Tandem & AS/400
612-304-5355
 
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midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>   9. RE: Operating System Levels (Paul E. Fenstermacher)
>
>Yes.  The requirement is N - 2.
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>Someone told me that your primary partition needed to be at your most
>current OS level.  I do not believe this to be true.  If I have a
>iSeries
>with 3 partitions, can I have the primary at V5R2, with my other 2
>partitions at V5R3?


Primary need not be most current. Secondaries are often created
_specifically_ in order to host a new release in a test environment
before upgrading the primary. This is one of the selling points of LPARs
from the beginning.

As mentioned above, one requirement is the N-2 limit. One additional
requirement is that the hardware must support the release. E.g., a new
system that requires V5R4 has no current alternatives.

Tom Liotta