Re: V5R4 disaster recovery

Keys are tied to Serial Number, Serial Number is stored, among other thing
like VET codes, in the VPD card. You might fry a PSU, you might fry a VRM
you might even fry a full backplane but as long as that VPD card is OK, you
can always restore the machine.
I've had to replace 3 520 backplanes, one power5 and one power5+ and in
once case i had to replace it 2 times, once about 2 years ago and one a few
months back, same machine. I just moved the VPD card to the new chassis and
off we go.
Then again if you lose the machine in a fire or something like that i'm not
sure you can re-program a virgin VPD with your info i tried that one time
and i failed but i didn't know half of what i know now...

Best Regards,



On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Paul Nelson <nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I wonder. If I got a maintenance contract renewal in January, would they
have charged for a year or 9 months?

Paul Nelson
Cell 708-670-6978
Office 512-392-2577
nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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Subject: V5R4 disaster recovery

Just curious, but IBM doesn't give new keys for V5R4, right? Since end of
marketing was a LONG time ago and end of support is 2013-09-30.
So if you fry your V5R4 box and need a replacement are you SOL?


Rob Berendt
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