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

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