Re: P7 8205 upgrade options

[Roberto José Etcheverry Romero <yggdrasil.raiker@xxxxxxxxx>]

I attended a deepdive a the STU in Brazil earlier this year. They do drill
down into the differences between models and their positioning.

On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 12:56 PM, Steinmetz, Paul <PSteinmetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> 1) Were there any changes to the IBM Power Systems S814 and S824 Technical
> Overview and Introduction since it came out in August 2014?
> I wasn't sure if any of the maximums, etc changed with the IBM
> announcements since then?
>
> 2) Also looking for an IBM "deepdive" for these guys, but not sure if IBM
> is still creating these.
> I always thought the "deepdive" did a good comparison between models,
> features, etc.
>
> Paul
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> We came from 3 Power 6's to 3 Power 8's.
> 9117-MMA  -->> S824, All SSD's
> 8203-E4A  -->>  S814, All SSD's
> 9408-M25  -->>  S814, spinning disks
>
> We settled on spinning disks on the last one because it was a third level
> of replication and sandbox machine.
> We got a pretty good deal on SSD's on the first two.  Not that we're even
> close to needing more but when the boss recently priced SSD's he is so glad
> he took the deal.
>
> Can't remember exactly why we went 824 vs 814.  Both machines have 8
> lpars:  2 vios, 1 AIX, 5 IBM i.  IBM i lpars are type split:  1 Domino
> DMZ, 1 Infor and other "traditional", 1 Development, 1 heavy Domino, 1
> hosting lpar.  The development and production lpars are Mimixed over to the
> 814.  The other 814 is 2 vios, no AIX, 1 host of IBM i, 1 triple replica of
> Domino, 1 sandbox lpar, 1 Domino DMZ, no Mimix.
>
>
> Rob Berendt
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> From:   "Steinmetz, Paul" <PSteinmetz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To:     "'midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx'" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   11/05/2015 06:22 PM
> Subject:        P7 8205 upgrade options
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>
> Looking for all available upgrade options for P7-8205.
> I5/OS only, 3 LPARS.
>
> S824 is one choice, S814 is another.
> S814 might be too limiting.
> Are there other choices?
>
> Thank You
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