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 | |||||
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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 |