Re: New Power 7 - Building a Case

[Luis Rodriguez <luisro58@xxxxxxxxx>]

Brian,

Ask your BP about the maintenance HDW fees for a Power 7 box against your
current system. IIRC, they tend to be lower for equivalent systems.

Also, maybe IBM's site has some papers and so.

Regards,

Luis Rodriguez
IBM Certified Systems Expert — eServer i5 iSeries
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On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Brian Piotrowski <
bpiotrowski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> We're in the process of getting quotes, etc. for a new Power-7 box (to
> replace our 520 - Power 4/5? - we purchased new in 2006).  I'm trying to
> build a case for our senior management group as to why we need it.
>
> Our current system (which is about 1200CPW pooled) is always running in the
> 99% cpu utilization - I can't recall really seeing it in anything lower than
> high 80s.  We're also doing major improvements to our codebase so having the
> extra horsepower to run it will be a benefit.
>
> Does anyone have any resources that can help me in my cause?  I don't think
> management will buy the argument of the CPU utilization on it's own.
>
> I did receive an article earlier this week on the benefits of upgrading.
>  Maybe I'll raid that article as well to see what useful information I can
> harvest.
>
> BTW - I did Google various phrases, but nothing really came up to give me a
> sound argument.
>
>
> Thankee-sai!
>
> /b;
>
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