Re: Power 9 upgrades and GA2.

Wouldn't the eConfig when doing an upgrade take that into account? I
haven't done any P8->P9 upgrades with expansions yet (not that popular over
here, most of our clients use SAN) but working from the original machine
should bring everything...

On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 9:31 AM, Jim Oberholtzer <
midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Paul,

What should happen is you grab a system plan from the HMC, then import it
into the current SPT. You'll have to do a conversion step to identify
things the SPT cannot, for instance DASD units (HMC does not see past the
controller card) and also add any chassis like the 5887 that the HMC does
not see (since it can't see past the controller card). At that point
you'll
know what's supported and what is not.

Your business partner is failing you if there is not a system plan as well
as the output from the eConfig tooling.


-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Steinmetz, Paul
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2018 2:55 PM
To: 'midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx' <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: Power 9 upgrades and GA2.

Rob,

How and where did you find this?
I was planning on doing something similar.

Because I'm bringing the 5887 EXP24S with its SSDs from our current P7, it
would not be in the configurator.

Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rob
Berendt
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2018 3:23 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Power 9 upgrades and GA2.

I've just found out that 5887 disk drawers will not be initially supported
on Power 9's.
This will postpone one of our Power 9 upgrades until GA2.
And I will have to chop our disk availability in half on our other two
Power
upgrades until then.
Nothing like leaving 21TB of SSD "on the shelf" on EACH of the two other
Power 8-9 upgrades.

For those thinking of using a Power 9 upgrade to cover the maintenance of
older SSD's you'd better make sure those older SSD's are not in 5887's.


Rob Berendt
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