RE: 9405-520 upgrade to v7r3

[Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Do you have the disk space to carve out a virtualized partition?  Depending
on your needs it could be small.

Fast and easy to set up.  Give it .01 processor and two GB of memory and you
have your test box.   For playing around you can ignore the 6 drive rule and
create 4 35GB virtual disks and away you go.   Yea you need to create the
virtual Ethernet and iSCSI devices but that takes about 5 minutes.  If you
want/need help with that give me a shout off line. 

Then there is also the cloud based solutions that are charged monthly
(iInTheCloud) 

-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of tim
Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2016 2:57 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: 9405-520 upgrade to v7r3

thanks guys. sad. was hoping for a test box that would be on same version as
newer production box that can run 7.3.



On 12/29/2016 3:41 PM, Rob Berendt wrote:
> 9405-520 can only go as high as 7.1 as per
> http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ssm1platformibmi
> And, even then, you had better make sure that all the hardware in that box
> is compatible also.
> For example, we had a Power 6 9406-MMA which says it will run on 7.2.
> However we would have had to rip out every card, expansion unit, disk unit
> and everything else.  (We had carried a lot of stuff over from Power 5
> days.)  So we upgraded to Power 8 first, then upgraded the OS.
>
> If you've only previously experience this at Version levels you've been
> <expletive deleted> lucky.  As you look at the chart above you can see
> - systems which would work on V5R2 but not V5R3
> - systems which would work on V5R3 but not V5R4
> - ... V5R1 but not V5R2
>
> So it's not like this is a new thing.
>
>
> Rob Berendt