Re: POWER 5, 6, 7 running AIX or i -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: POWER 5, 6, 7 running AIX or i
From: Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 15:57:58 -0600
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No. You order a POWER system, activate as many processors as you want, and license whatever of the three OS instances you want to those processors. AIX, IBM i, or Linux. Linux is obtained from Redhat or SUSE.

Jim Oberholtzer
CEO/Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects, LLC

On 2/25/2011 3:40 PM, Charles Wilt wrote:

All,

If I recall correctly, when IBM first converged the System i / System
p hardware, you could order a System i and run just AIX on the whole
box but you couldn't order a System p and run just IBM i on the whole
box. A System p box was only allowed a small (number?) of IBM i
LPARS.

Is this still the case with POWER 5, 6,7 boxes?

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