Ibm Power 710 End Of Life

Upgrade from ibm power 6 to a newer ibm power server that does support ibm i 7 2 3 and will have ibm hardware maintenance support beyond march 2019.

Ibm power 710 end of life.

As a high performance infrastructure or application server the power 710 express server contain. The power6 iron is to really be expected. Use this information to find the system overview and the planning installing removing replacing configuring and troubleshooting procedures. In case you didn t notice it ibm is getting ready to embark on a new generation of systems based on its nimbus and cumulus power9 chips.

10 30 2020. The ibm power 710 express 8231 e1c system is based on power7 processor based technology. Ibm is one of the few manufacturers that separates hardware hwma and software swma support. When ibm decides it will no longer support its storage server or network hardware it teams are left scrambling trying to figure out what they can do to deal with the problem without breaking the budget.

However the power7 iron kind of took me by surprise specifically the 8202 e4b and 8202 e4c. Stay on ibm power 6 and accept on an unsupported version of ibm i in april 2018 and take out third party maintenance after the 31st of march 2018. If you want to know how long you have left on your aix version check out this timeline. Power 710 730 end of service life.

Written by steve pitcher on september 19 2017 ibm announced that a number of machines will be going out of maintenance in the next two years. Hardware eosl for power7 officially starts at the end of september 2019. Ibm power systems is the name of the family of servers based on power processors. Select a specific version or edition of power7 documentation.

September 25 2017 timothy prickett morgan. Subscribe to this information. Never miss another end of service life announcement get the latest eosl information directly to your inbox. Ibm inks in end of support for power6 and power7 iron.

Dd sm 877 enus8231 h04 abstract the ibm 8231 is a power 710 express server that is a high performance energy efficient reliable and secure infrastructure and application server in a dense form factor. Ibm power 6 end of support date is the 31 03. Using the information on this site customers will be able to effectively plan their software investment without any gaps in support. So you have the option to pay for ibm s continued maintenance support until then.

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