RE: LPARing an 810......

$5-$10K seems pretty high to me.

It's not that difficult.


The real expense in setting up LPAR is the hardware.  You need addional
disk, disk controllers, console connection, LAN card (optional really
but recommended), and the physical space to put it all into.  Your BP
should be more than willing to design the LPAR configuration assuming
you'll be buying the hardware from the same BP.  After the hardware
placement has been spelled out, its just a matter of installing the
hardware and creating the partition.  IBM includes a wizard to help you
with this task, see
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/topic/rzait/rzaitc
reate.htm

I personally like to download a copy of the LPAR Validation tool and
work up my own design or double check my BPs. (Now called the System
Planning Tool)
http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/support/tools/systemplanningtool/


Note that IBM doesn't recommend two partitions.  They recommend a
minimum of 3:
1) Controlling Partition
2) Production Partition
3) other partition.

But like everybody else I know about we only have two
1) Controlling/Production
2) Development

Just my .02

Charles Wilt
--
iSeries Systems Administrator / Developer
Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America
ph: 513-573-4343
fax: 513-398-1121
 

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Subject: LPARing an 810......

I'm preparing a presentation on possible expenses in the 
coming year and 
have been asked to add a slide concerning the cost to LPAR 
our current 
system if we decide to begin work on a new ERP package.

I realize that an 810 will not support the latest and 
greatest in LPAR, 
but believe that it is possible with one 'controlling' 
partition (OS/400 
based) and dependent LPARs (also OS/400 based) as needed.  Is that 
correct?  What would be a reasonable estimate to have a 
business partner 
come in to set that up?  I don't think this is something that 
we would 
want to tackle on our own.  Would $5 - $10k cover the 
consulting expenses?

At this point we're interested only in a broad outline of the 
possiblity--we really don't need to go through the process of 
spec'ing 
this out and getting real quotes.

Thanks for any help.





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