RE: SSDs for POWER6 550

["Ingvaldson, Scott" <Scott.Ingvaldson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, that is unfortunate.

It is frustrating to me as an ivangelist that a two year old system specifically designed to enable a future no-downtime enhancement now requires downtime due to a withdrawn FC being replaced by an incompatible FC.  It's not like it's a ten year old box, two releases behind.

It kind of makes it looks less like a system and more like a commodity.


Regards,
 
Scott Ingvaldson
Senior IBM Support Specialist



-----Original Message-----
From: DrFranken [mailto:midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2011 2:37 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: SSDs for POWER6 550

The FC #5802 is an expansion drawer that holds both PCIe Cards and 18 
SFF Disk Units. As stated the FC #1909 isn't supported there.
The FC #8346 is the option for the CEC to have 8 SFF (2.5") disk units 
rather than 6 standard form factor (3.5") disk units.

But it's a mute point as the FC #1909 is withdrawn.

     - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

On 12/21/2011 3:14 PM, Ingvaldson, Scott wrote:
> I found this in the System Builder:
>
> #1909 69 GB SFF SAS Solid State Drive
>
> The 69 GB SFF SAS Solid State Drive (SSD) provides 69.7 GB of very high
> performance storage, much faster than spinning disk drives with their
> delays due to positioning the disk arm and waiting for the spinning disk
> to rotate under the arm. SSD also provide lower power utilization than
> spinning or hard disk drives (HDD). The drive is formatted to 69.7 GB
> and can be used by AIX, Linux (#1890), and IBM i (#1909). Both are
> identical drives, but have different feature codes to help the IBM
> configuration tools understand how the SSD is used.
>
> Connector: Standard SAS dual port
> 3 Gbps SAS device (300 MBps)
> 528 bytes sectors Power System
> Attributes required: One SFF SAS drive bay slot in the 8203-E4A or
> 8204-E8A CEC
> OS level required:	IBM i V6.1 or later
>
> Initial Order/MES/Both/Supported: Both
> CSU: Yes
> Return parts MES: No
> Note: Only supported in CEC #8346. Not supported in #5802.
>
>
> How do you tell if your CEC is an #8346 or a #5802?  I went through our
> Upgrade Configuration Summary line by line and there are a lot of
> numbers but neither of those!
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Scott Ingvaldson
> Senior IBM Support Specialist
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pete Massiello - ML [mailto:pmassiello-ml@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2011 11:36 AM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: RE: SSDs for POWER6 550
>
> Scott,
>
> 	This machine is certainly capable of running SSDs at 6.1 or 7.1.
> Now, there are many different SSDs that it can be installed, but based
> upon what you already have was the BP saying that he couldn't add them
> to the current configuration, and that he might need to add a draw?
> That can be the case.  You don't want to mix SSD drives and Hard drives
> on the same disk controller.
>
> 	Pete
>
> Pete Massiello
> iTech Solutions
> http://www.itechsol.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ingvaldson, Scott
> Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2011 10:40 AM
> To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: SSDs for POWER6 550
>
> We have a Power 6 550 (8204-E8A) with a 57B7/57B8 storage controller.
> It was my understanding that when we purchased this model it was capable
> of running SSDs but our BP is now telling me that it is not.  Is this
> really that case?
>
>
>
> All six slots in the CEC are available for use.
>
>
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Scott Ingvaldson
>
> Senior IBM Support Specialist
>
>
>
>
>
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