Re: new serial with V7R1?

[Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Glen,

You CAN do the back up and restore directly to a POWER7!!.  Furthermore 
if your OS is up on maintenance you can transfer the licenses for the LPPs.

The ONLY change is the hardware system serial number if you get a new 
POWER7 directly.  That is an IRS requirement because the POWER7 is so 
much bigger than the POWER5 IRS won't let you upgrade the asset for 
accounting purposes.

If you go the double upgrade route (only an accountant would care if the 
POWER5  is not written off the books yet) then back up/restore to the 
POWER6 box, run 60 days, backup/restore to your new POWER7 box and go.

Personally I'd just get the new box.

Jim Oberholtzer
CEO/Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects, LLC


On 2/15/2011 10:45 AM, Glenn Hopwood wrote:
> My basic question is: Why can't I do a save/restore from my old hardware
> (Power 5+) to my new hardware (Power 7) just like we've done numerous
> times before (assuming the OS is supported on both systems)?
>
> Why do I need to purchase and then discard a Power 6 machine or
> re-purchase the OS (new serial number)?
>
> Glenn
>
> On 2/15/2011 10:22 AM, Dan wrote:
> > >  Glenn, is your question "what release can I run on which server?" or
> > >  "how do I upgrade and preserve my serial number?"
> > >
> > >  Some things that might help you:
> > >
> > >  1. IBM maintains a web page which shows which Power and System i models
> > >  work with which releases of IBM i:
> > >  http://www-947.ibm.com/systems/support/i/planning/upgrade/osmapping.html
> > >
> > >  2. As Larry pointed out, IBM doesn't offer an upgrade from POWER5
> > >  directly to POWER7.  There are some upgrade paths from POWER5 to POWER6
> > >  (from which you can upgrade to POWER7) but I believe that these upgrades
> > >  will be withdrawn from marketing May 27, 2011.
> > >
> > >  3. Going back to Jerry's original question, I wonder if what someone
> > >  said was that since upgrades from POWER5 to POWER6 go away May 27, in
> > >  June or later you can't two-step upgrade a POWER5 box to POWER7 and keep
> > >  your serial number.  Maybe "POWER7" and "IBM i version 7" got confused
> > >  in someone's memory.  Or maybe it's me that's confused.  Happens all the
> > >  time.
> > >
> > >  4. If you don't care about preserving your server's serial number, you
> > >  can replace your POWER5+ server with a new POWER7 server running IBM i
> > >  6.1 or 7.1 now, or in June, or whenever you like.
> > >
> > >  -Dan R., IBM Power Systems Tech Specialist
> > >
> > >  On 2/15/2011 9:21 AM, Glenn Hopwood wrote:
> > > >>  Larry,
> > > >>
> > > >>  Can you expand on this? We are currently on a Power 5+ and would like to
> > > >>  get to a Power 7. I don't see a technical reason why we can't go
> > > >>  straight to the 7...
> > > >>
> > > >>  Glenn
> > > >>
> > > >>  On 2/11/2011 11:16 PM, DrFranken wrote:
> > > > >>>  If you have a POWER5 or 5+ machine you can already run IBM i 7.1 so
> > > > >>>  you're good. But on the other hand if you want to get up to POWER7 then
> > > > >>>  you would need to either upgrade to POWER6 and THEN to POWER7 (two
> > > > >>>  steps) to keep the same serial number or you buy a new POWER7 and get a
> > > > >>>  new serial number.
> > >