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

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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,

We have a 9408-M25 running i5OS with several LPARs (for test and
development).

We also have several IBM Power 520 Express series 8203-E4A servers
running AIX.

In order to provide more AIX test environments, we are converting our
9408-M25 to several AIX partitions.

IBM says they can just 'convert' the 9408-M25 to 8203-E4A with a license
code change.

So exactly what is the difference between these two models?

It appears they are both IBM Power 520 Express hardware platform and can
both run Linux, i5/OS, and AIX.

Thanks,

Nate Gelbard | Senior QA Engineer | Performance Team Lead

Tripwire, Inc.

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