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I'll add that when you download someone will call and offer their help if you want the 30 day trial key. They are usually very good about giving a great deal of assistance with learning the product and looking at what the data shows. "Ingvaldson, Scott" <SIngvaldson@guid To eone.com> <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent by: cc midrange-l-bounce s@xxxxxxxxxxxx Subject RE: i5-520+ - Performance 11/20/2006 11:53 AM Please respond to Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@midra nge.com> I will add that we have been a very satisfied Performance Navigator customer for years. They offer a free download of Performance Navigator that allows you to start collecting data immediately, so you will have a history of your system if and when you do buy the tool. The trial version lets you see some CPU info and some other data, and the rest of the features are grayed out. Midrange Performance Group has also been very good about giving out 30 day trial keys so that you can test the full version. The data is stored in a "compressed" format. My Perfomance Navigator library has 3+ years of data in 248 MB of space vs. QPFRDATA, which holds 30 days worth of data using about 10 GB. Regards, Scott Ingvaldson iSeries System Administrator GuideOne Insurance Group -----Original Message----- date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 10:00:04 -0500 from: "Sellers, Eric" <Eric.Sellers@xxxxxxxxxxxx> subject: Re: i5-520+ - Performance I have to agree with the previous post. You must run a performance analysis to verify that your workload will not suffer if you decrease the amount of interactive processing power available. I used to use the MPG Performance Navigator on most system engagements when I was selling System i. It is a fine tool for looking at all of the performance related items on your system including processor, memory, disk, etc. You must be collecting performance data for it to have a history to look at. They can be reached through your business partner or at www.mpginc.com. Eric Sellers message: 6 date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 07:52:48 -0500 from: ChadB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx subject: Re: i5-520+ - Performance My gut feeling is that the 60/1200 will be just fine, but you should try to do some analysis of your interactive workload on the current 720. You should be able to get a good enough feel by just looking at the interactive oriented graphs available within the system monitors in Ops Navigator. If you are working with a business partner on shopping for the new box, alot of them will offer an analysis to help you confirm this (ours will engage the Midrange Performance Group, who will do a no-cost 'second opinion service' that will help confirm that a hardware purchase is the right hardware for the customer). Unless you REALLY need a whole ton of interactive, the Enterprise model will be a huge premium price to pay... this is worth doing the analysis on instead of buying the Enterprise model 'just in case'! Philipp Rusch <philipp.rusch@ne wvision-it.de> To Sent by: Midrange Systems Technical midrange-l-bounce Discussion s@xxxxxxxxxxxx <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> cc 11/20/2006 03:59 Subject AM i5-520+ - Performance Please respond to Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@midra nge.com> Hello, we have a discussion about performance capabilities of the new i5-520+ systems. We want to replace a model 720 with 120/240 CPW either with a 520+ Express with 60/1200 CPW or a 520+ Enterprise with 1200/1200 CPW. The problem is obviously about cost. We recently added a HA package to our main system (this 720) and that added another 8 to 10% of workload which is now more than enough for that processor. Main application is Movex 10A, running a lot of background processes, which would be well suited for the Express model. The question is do we NEED the enterprise machine or is it possible to run with only 60 CPW interactive Performance ? We recently replaced a 720 with 70/240 CPW at another site with an Express i5-520+ with 60/1200 CPW and our experience was like: "WOW, what an incredible fast machine !" even with that smaller interactive feature. Best regards from Germany, Mit freundlichen Gr??en, Philipp Rusch DISCLAIMER: This message and accompanying documents are covered by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 U.S.C. 2510-2521, and contains information intended for the specified individual(s) only. This information is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient or an agent responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this document in error and that any review, dissemination, copying, or the taking of any action based on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited. 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