EnterpriseOne IBM i Hardware Upgrade

Hooray! The New Hardware Is In! The New Hardware Is In!

Sorry to mutilate a classic line, but… Hey, this is exciting news.

Our IBM hardware guys put in a lot of hours last weekend and upgraded our Enterprise Server hardware. Essentially, we doubled processor CPW, tripled RAM & added 1TB of disk. See the breakdown below:

	Existing Hardware			New Hardware
	System	LPAR 1	LPAR 2	System	LPAR 1	LPAR 2
Chip Set	Power5			Power6
Chip Speed	1.65 GHz			4.7 GHz
CPUs (Active)	2	1.4	.6	3	2	1

CPW System (Active)	6000	4200	1800	13500	9000	4500
CPW Interactive (5250)	3000	2100	900	4500	3000	1500
Memory	20 GB	12 GB	8 GB	64 GB	40 GB	24 GB
DASD - Capacity RAID-5		1848 GB	775 GB		2537 GB	1057 GB