Re: Adding a partition to our 270

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul,

  For a personal box a low end 520 would likely work pretty well. Work 
hard to find one in the P05 tier though as the software becomes doable 
in that tier and then you can get V5R3, R4, V6R1, V7R1 keys for the 
thing. Good range of O/S support there. You will need to find an HMC to 
LPAR but if you're willing to just get a couple sets of disks you can 
reboot on different versions if required.

 You can almost certainly get something under $10,000 with drives, 
cards, Memory DVD and RAID. Tape drive not included. Poke around and 
check with customers doing upgrades.

 - Larry

On 5/11/2010 6:45 PM, Musselman, Paul wrote:
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> Lukas also wrote:
> "If you need it really cheap, look about old Power 5 520s going back.
> They can run V7R1 and V6R1, which the 270 can't."
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> How cheap is 'really cheap?  I'm thinking of something for personal
> use/experimentation.
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> Paul E Musselman
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