Ibm Power 710 End Of Life

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Ibm power 710 end of life. Subscribe to this information. So you have the option to pay for ibm s continued maintenance support until then. Ibm inks in end of support for power6 and power7 iron. 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.
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. Select a specific version or edition of power7 documentation. Park place technologies makes it easy to find the latest end of life eol and end of service life eosl information for your ibm hardware. However the power7 iron kind of took me by surprise specifically the 8202 e4b and 8202 e4c.
Hardware eosl for power7 officially starts at the end of september 2019. The power6 iron is to really be expected. 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. Even though the power 720 didn t seem that old it is.
Ibm power systems is the name of the family of servers based on power processors. The ibm power 710 express 8231 e1c system is based on power7 processor based technology. If you want to know how long you have left on your aix version check out this timeline. 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.
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. Ibm is one of the few manufacturers that separates hardware hwma and software swma support. Never miss another end of service life announcement get the latest eosl information directly to your inbox. Ibm power 6 end of support date is the 31 03.
Ibm software customers can use this site to track how long their version and release of a particular ibm software product will be supported. As a high performance infrastructure or application server the power 710 express server contain. Power 710 730 end of service life. 10 30 2020.
Use this information to find the system overview and the planning installing removing replacing configuring and troubleshooting procedures.