Re: LPARing an 810......

Rob and Charles have good point.  Not a big deal LPARing the 810.  I 
have Prod LPAR and a Test one.  Other than extra IOP/Disk 
controllers/DASD/Console access and some memory it's not bad. 

5-10K for the consulting services does seem high.  

message: 1
date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 09:23:21 -0400
from: ALopez@xxxxxxxxxx
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.