The two were being decommissioned with the hardware. The initial plan was to physically destroy the disks and then dispose of the chassis but I am open to suggestions. Items are in Australia which might make logistics more difficult.
On Sun, Feb 25, 2024 at 5:18 AM Ed Jaffe < 000005acc3c79bf7-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > What are you doing with the HMC? I know someone that needs one... > > On 2/23/2024 3:04 PM, Laurence Chiu wrote: > > I need to decommission and remove for potential destruction z16 zr1. It > > only has one active engine so it's capped at 88 mips > > which isn't very useful. But for a number of reasons it has a ton of 16G > > fibre channel cards (6 or 8 I think). They might have some value so I was > > thinking I would remove them before having the host removed. There are > also > > 4 OSA Express cards (10G). Our IBM SE said IBM do not support used cards > in > > CEC's but that does not mean they won't work? > > > > Another thought was it could be used as a sysprog play pen, carving up > some > > storage of the DS8K we have and creating a small z/OS image. But how much > > play can you do in 88 MIPS? > > > > Ideas appreciated. > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This e-mail message, including any attachments, appended messages and the > information contained therein, is for the sole use of the intended > recipient(s). If you are not an intended recipient or have otherwise > received this email message in error, any use, dissemination, distribution, > review, storage or copying of this e-mail message and the information > contained therein is strictly prohibited. If you are not an intended > recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies > of this email message and do not otherwise utilize or retain this email > message or any or all of the information contained therein. Although this > email message and any attachments or appended messages are believed to be > free of any virus or other defect that might affect any computer system > into > which it is received and opened, it is the responsibility of the recipient > to ensure that it is virus free and no responsibility is accepted by the > sender for any loss or damage arising in any way from its opening or use. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
