RE: Getting ready for the (far?) future

Any particular reason you wouldn't go 7.4?



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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Norm Dennis
Sent: Monday, February 24, 2020 5:25 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Getting ready for the (far?) future

Future planning isn't a bad thing [Getting ready for the (far?) future],
especially if there is the possibility of future growth.

We are currently running with V7R1 on 2 x Power 7's (1 Live, 1 DR), both
of which are at end of life.
Our plan is to upgrade to V7R3 on 2 x Power 9's, in the very near
future.


Norm Dennis


------ Original Message ------
From: "B Stone" <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion"
<midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, 25 Feb, 2020 At 00:10
Subject: Re: Getting ready for the (far?) future

So, they shell out big $$ for new hardware to get lower ? yearly
maintenance? As far as I know my power 8 is still under maintenance.. I
did SWMA renewal a few months back and hardware just a couple months
ago.

I guess since I'm mainly a programmer I don't follow the hardware things
that much.


On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 9:48 AM John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 8:20 AM B Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I know I won't outgrow my Power8 before the latest OS won't run on
it,

but

hopefully that won't be for a few years. Even my old 515 still has

enough

horsepower for most of the things I need it for.

Once we moved to our current box (which I believe is a POWER7+, and
definitely at the lowest possible tier) several years ago, we have
been unable to throw anything at it which makes it break a sweat. If
your business is growing so fast that you actually need to upgrade for
performance reasons, that is a great, great problem for your business
to have. I think the vast majority of IBM midrange shops out there are
only upgrading at this point for maintenance and support reasons.

John Y.
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