Re: How to plan for a new system

I'd suggest working with an IBM business partner. You should be able to 
get someone interested in a project of this size. We're 90 miles from 
Dallas/Fort Worth area, and our business partner made several visits to 
help plan our upgrade last year. You have enough time to talk to several 
BPs and to find one that you feel comfortable working with. Their 
experience will be invaluable. 

Be sure to look at the issues of HA replication closely. You will be 
depending on your HA software provider, so be sure that they answer your 
questions fully before you make your final decision on the HA product.


Steven Morrison
Fidelity Express 
903-885-1283  ext. 479





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I'm starting to assemble a plan to do a major upgrade about one year
from now.    Our current system is a model 720 with V4R4.    It performs
quite well but it is approaching 7 years old.   The system I would like
would be two Power 6 machines in a High Availability configuration.
The machines would be about 15 miles apart connected with T1
communications.   Probably no LPAR will be used.   These would be simply
machines supporting about 100 users.   There would be no upgrading of
the old system.

Here's my dilemma.   As I have stated in the past - It is NOT easy to
configure and purchase a system.   I do not have an IBM business partner
and I am somewhat remotely located (Waynesboro, PA - 90 miles NW of Wash
D.C.)

I plan to attend the COMMON conference in April to connect with the
vendors at the expo.  I'll have to deal with software license issues
which I hope won't sink the ship. The hardware we can afford. 

I don't think I can figure this out all by myself (2 person shop).  How
does one go about getting configuration assistance for a project which
won't occur until next year?