RE: ** Feedback/Recommendations on the i5 520 Series **

["Ingvaldson, Scott" <SIngvaldson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm pretty sure this is completely wrong.  IIRC a 520 will support up to 10
LPARs per processor, you would need some additional resources for each LPAR,
but they're virtualizing more IOP's all the time so this could change.

In the case of Linux, you could also run it as an iSeries guest LPAR, which
requires no additional resources.  On a 520 with V5R3 you do not need an
OS/400 management partition and you have support for dynamic processor
movement so you might not even need the 2-way system.  Per the V5R3 handbook
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpieces/pdfs/ga195486.pdf you can get a 1-way
520 with up to 3300 CPW.

Regards,

Scott Ingvaldson
iSeries System Administrator
GuideOne Insurance Group

-----Original Message-----
date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 15:49:10 +0100
from: Mike Barton <Mike.Barton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: ** Feedback/Recommendations on the i5 520 Series **

>Hello All, 
>
>We're just getting ready to bring in a new i5 Server for in house 
>development and support. 
snip
>
>My thought process so far is to bring in a single or dual processor where 
>we can have 2 iSeries partitions, a Linux partition and an AIX partition 
>for cross platform development. 

Richard
        i am not an expert in this area but one thing you
might want to consider is the that Linux partitions require
a dedicated processor (someone tell me if this is wrong !). 

Therefore a single processor box may be a little restrictive....

Mike
   
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