Re: IBM propose to migrate all servers to z10 , what's the upgrade path for p595 or p6

2008-04-23 Thread R.S.
Kelman, Tom wrote: John, I believe that your statements would hold true if you were comparing an IFL on the z9 against the p6. As I understand it the p6 chip is a 1.8Ghz chip and the z9 IFL has a 1.2Ghz chip. AFAIK it's not, P6 rating is over 4GHz. However it doesn't matter. Comparing proce

Re: IBM propose to migrate all servers to z10 , what's the upgrade path for p595 or p6

2008-04-21 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Kelman, Tom wrote: John, I believe that your statements would hold true if you were comparing an IFL on the z9 against the p6. As I understand it the p6 chip is a 1.8Ghz chip and the z9 IFL has a 1.2Ghz chip. So if you move from an AIX server using the p6 chip to LINUX on a z9 IFL you'd be los

Re: IBM propose to migrate all servers to z10 , what's the upgrade path for p595 or p6

2008-04-21 Thread David Andrews
On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 09:12 -0500, Kelman, Tom wrote: > As I understand it the p6 chip is a > 1.8Ghz chip and the z9 IFL has a 1.2Ghz chip. So if you move from an > AIX server using the p6 chip to LINUX on a z9 IFL you'd be losing some > power. Not on the basis of internal clock rate! Those two

Re: IBM propose to migrate all servers to z10 , what's the upgrade path for p595 or p6

2008-04-21 Thread Ted MacNEIL
>I believe that your statements would hold true if you were comparing an IFL on >the z9 against the p6. As I understand it the p6 chip is a 1.8Ghz chip and >the z9 IFL has a 1.2Ghz chip. So if you move from an AIX server using the p6 chip to LINUX on a z9 IFL you'd be losing some power. You're

Re: IBM propose to migrate all servers to z10 , what's the upgrade path for p595 or p6

2008-04-21 Thread Staller, Allan
The z6 Chip is 4.2 gh, the p6 chip is 4.4 gh. The p5 chips are plus/minus 2 gh IIRC. I believe that your statements would hold true if you were comparing an IFL on the z9 against the p6. As I understand it the p6 chip is a 1.8Ghz chip and the z9 IFL has a 1.2Ghz chip. So if you move from an AI

Re: IBM propose to migrate all servers to z10 , what's the upgrade path for p595 or p6

2008-04-21 Thread Kelman, Tom
John, I believe that your statements would hold true if you were comparing an IFL on the z9 against the p6. As I understand it the p6 chip is a 1.8Ghz chip and the z9 IFL has a 1.2Ghz chip. So if you move from an AIX server using the p6 chip to LINUX on a z9 IFL you'd be losing some power. Howe

Re: IBM propose to migrate all servers to z10 , what's the upgrade path for p595 or p6

2008-04-19 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Tommy Tsui wrote: Hi all, As I heard from IBM, Bank of Tokyo just completed their big project to migrate a thousand of server to a z9 using IFL linux. They show me the migration powerpoint (seems quite successful) Anyone know about this task? Any shop is doing the same thing? What's the upgrade p

Re: IBM propose to migrate all servers to z10 , what's the upgrade path for p595 or p6

2008-04-19 Thread Stephen Mednick
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tommy Tsui > Sent: Sunday, 20 April 2008 9:32 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: IBM propose to migrate all servers to z10 , what's > the upgrade path

IBM propose to migrate all servers to z10 , what's the upgrade path for p595 or p6

2008-04-19 Thread Tommy Tsui
Hi all, As I heard from IBM, Bank of Tokyo just completed their big project to migrate a thousand of server to a z9 using IFL linux. They show me the migration powerpoint (seems quite successful) Anyone know about this task? Any shop is doing the same thing? What's the upgrade path for existing p59