vBe aware that upgrades to an AS/400 or iSeries server may requirewiring
changes to a building. For more information, see TechnicalStudio at
http://www.iseries.ibm.com/tstudio/planning/plngstrt.htm.
The customer should work with the marketing representative to schedule a
system assurance meeting to review all of the following activities.
Note: This meeting should include the customer, IBM marketing representative,
hardware service representative, softwareservice representative, and any
non-IBM software service representative.
vReview memory considerations as follows:
–Net-priced main storage feature exchanges are not available when upgrading
to another AS/400 PowerPC AS model. In addition, you cannot exchange
AS/400 or iSeries 400 memory cards for credit toward the purchase of newer
or larger AS/400 or iSeries 400 memory cards. Toreduce the necessity for
future memory exchanges, the customer should order sufficient memory card
sizes for future growth requirements.
–Main storage for AS/400 Models 400
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, 500, and 530 is not compatible with
each other.
–Main storage for AS/400 Models 40S, 50S, and 53S is not compatible with
each other.
–Youmust plug in main storage cards in equally-sized pairs for the Model 500
Feature Processor 2142. Therefore, it might not be possible to reuseall of the
main storage cards from the previous feature processor(2140 or 2141).
–Youmust plug in main storage cards in equally-sized pairs for the AS/400
Models 510 and 530 and the AS/400 Models 50S and 53S.
vEnsure that you know how to accomplish RAID protection on a migrated
internal disk unit. Youmust have an attachment to a Feature Code for a high
availability DASD controller (for example, 6502,6512,6532,2726,or2740).
Note: In order to avoid additional charges for the IBM service representative’s
time, perform ASP management after completion of the hardware
upgrade.
vBe prepared to delete the old device description and create a new one, if the
type of console changes.
vReview and confirm the hardware and software order.
vSome systems have a mix of unsupported disk unit devices. If the system has
such a mix, consider one of the following:
–Purchase additional supported disk unit devices in order to enable the
removal of all unsupported devices before the model upgrade.
–Purchase AS/400 Data Migration Services.
Upgrading from a 4xx, 5xx, Sxx, or 6xx to a 7xx
Many installed AS/400 Models 4xx, 5xx, 6xx, and Sxx (except SB1) can be
upgraded to an AS/400 Model 7xx.
All system units and expansion units have locations for features including
processors, main storage, power,expansion units, disk units, tape drives, CD-ROM
drive, and IOPs. Some restrictions may apply to certain combinations of features.
The configurator contains the rules and performance considerations for placement
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