Re: difference between 9408-m25 and 8203-e4a servers?

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I would say the difference is about 1205 (rougly.)  :-)

Actually as you have surmised they are physically and capably the same 
machine. The difference is the 9408 machines were build before the final 
merge of the System i and System p platforms into POWER systems. The 
94xx models were System i heritage. The 820x models are POWER systems 
family. So IBM simply does a conversion in paperwork thus (mostly) just 
allowing IBMs systems to generate software keys and future upgrades for 
your system.

 - DrFranken

On 4/8/2010 6:58 PM, Nate Gelbard wrote:
> Hello,
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> We have a 9408-M25 running i5OS with several LPARs (for test and
> development).
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> We also have several IBM Power 520 Express series 8203-E4A servers
> running AIX.
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> In order to provide more AIX test environments, we are converting our
> 9408-M25 to several AIX partitions.
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> IBM says they can just 'convert' the 9408-M25 to 8203-E4A with a license
> code change.
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> So exactly what is the difference between these two models?
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> It appears they are both IBM Power 520 Express hardware platform and can
> both run Linux, i5/OS, and AIX.
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> Thanks,
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> Nate Gelbard | Senior QA Engineer | Performance Team Lead
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> Tripwire, Inc.
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