Re: IBM Power partitioning

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rob,

    Do remember that while all that HSL stuff is not supported by IBM i 
'next' it is still usable. You can either us VIOS to host the partitions 
thus utilizing the hardware by 'hiding' it from IBM i or you can also 
use an IBM i 7.1 partition to host the IBM i 'next' partitions.

    - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

On 5/31/2012 3:29 PM, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> We have 3 boxes.  Currently all Power 6.  Subject to change in the near
> future.  No single lpar boxes.  The one box has 3 lpars:
> - Host lpar is primarily Domino.  Cluster 3 of 3.  For example, lparA on
> box1 may have Domino servers:  NOTES01, GDDATA.  lparB on box2 may have
> NOTES02, GDDATA2.  lparC on this box will have:  NOTES03, GDDATA3.
> - Second lpar on this box is a sandbox lpar of IBM i.  Permission to IPL
> on a whim.
> - third lpar is dmz triple cluster of our domino smtp server.
> Yes, this will be upgraded to power 7.
> The machine that has the most lpars: MimixProd, MimixDev, DominoCluster2,
> DMZDominoSmtp2, TSMLinuxPrimary, will remain at Power 6.  This is our "2"
> box.  He'll be getting a lot of castoff's from the other planned upgrades.
>   I'm a little concerned because much of the hardware has been announced by
> IBM to be trash with the OS planned after 7.1 and this machine will on
> that release NLT one quarter after GA.
> Our "1" box will be upgraded to Power 7.
>
>
> We will 'play' with vios on our "3" box.  Contract with IBM using vouchers
> gained by the money throwing at hardware to do this for us on a learn by
> an "install and train".
>
> Rob Berendt