Re: Migrating extant system to new hardware

It's 7.1 -> 7.1
It's from a P6 to a P8.
I'd *like *to SAVSYS to a virtual tape image, make that image the primary
load source, and install the new raw partition from the virtual image.
I'm not quite sure yet as I root through the docs if that is doable,
because it seems the docs say that the target of the SAVSYS must itself be
a primary load source.


On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 11:24 AM, Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

My "favorite"? Never let the hardware get so old that it can't have the
software upgraded to a release supported on the new hardware.
Then we upgrade and test a sandbox lpar.
Then upgrade other lpars (other than production, development and their
respective HA lpars).
Then we upgrade the "target" of our HA software.
And always upgrade the "source" before your next switch.

You don't want your source to be higher than your target. You don't want
to run into objects which can't be saved to the previous release.

Rob Berendt
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From: Jack Woehr <jwoehr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 12/19/2017 01:15 PM
Subject: Migrating extant system to new hardware
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Favorite solution paths for migrating extant system to new hardware?

- Replication suites/hardware?
- Installing OS on new LPAR and restoring a SAVSYS?
- Booting/installing from SAVSYS on tape or virtual image?

??

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