RE: POWER 7 Upgrade

I was in the same boat.
Our Power5 9406-550 has ben MES upgraded many times, from old S/38 days, (30 years worth). A new install has never been done, only restores, migrations, and i5OS upgrades.
There are too many various configs and tweeked settings that would all have to be redone on a new install.
We opt to restore 21, much quicker, and have come up with a process to delete unused libraries and objects.
Also, you can have your disks all pre-configured, this will save you 10 to 20 hours when you do your live migration.

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of rob@xxxxxxxxx
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Subject: RE: POWER 7 Upgrade

"user library restore"?
Well, there's more than that. Are you planning on rekeying all users, etc from scratch on the new box and just restore user libraries (and directories)?

I think there is something more middle of the road.

Other things to consider is this isn't your father's AS/400. There's a lot of configuration stored in various stream files in the IFS. Do you really want to use this as a time to evaluate every line of your HTTP directives to put in a clean system? That's just one tiny minuscule example.


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From: broehmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Date: 05/01/2013 02:40 PM
Subject: RE: POWER 7 Upgrade
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Here's the thing. I see the ReSpin K on the Power 5 to be somewhat
trivial.
Shouldn't take that long and like Jim said, it's the absolute safest way
to go.
I don't have a problem with that. And I'm probably leaning that way.
But doing the restore from the save 21 basically rebuilds the new system
from
scratch because you rebuild the ASP. My question has always been is there
a better way I can consider that does the same thing but to build the
Power 7 to
point where the restore is already past the system build ready for User
library
restore
And I have a system that started somewhere around OS 4.2 and there are
things in that "closet" I'd like to throw out.





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Sounds like a good reason to be at respin K like his BP is planning.


Rob Berendt