Re: P9 CPW

[Diego Kesselman <diegokesselman@xxxxxxxxx>]

Performance improvement ranges from 39% (4 core S814->S914) to 51%  for
same size boxes


El 28 feb. 2018 9:06 AM, "Rob Berendt" <rob@xxxxxxxxx> escribió:

> We're quoting replacing two P8-8286-41A's and one P8-8286-42A.
> The painful part is the interactive tax.  That does not transfer from the
> P8's.  On the bright side whomever buys our P8's gets our old interactive
> license.  We're hoping this increases their value.
>
> We're probably keeping all the disk except for the CEC disks solely for
> the vios lpars.
> What we're hearing, and we're really having a tough time believing it and
> are requesting confirmation, is that if we swap out our P8 CEC's for P9
> CEC's we can get 3 years warranty on our existing SSD's.  That is a HUGE
> thing.  We just replaced our SSD's solely because of maintenance costs,
> but kept the old ones in their old expansion units for a secondary basic
> user ASP, and self maintain them.
>
>
> Rob Berendt
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> From:   Gad Miron <gadmiron@xxxxxxxxx>
> To:     Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   02/28/2018 02:56 AM
> Subject:        P9 CPW
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>
> Hello everyone
>
> I'm told that CPW data for P9 was just released
>
> I'm considering replacing a 8286 41A P8 machine with a comparable P9
> (S914)
> one.
>
> What performance gain can be expected ?
> assuming all other factors (No. of cores, main storage, DASD  etc.) are
> about the same.
>
>
> TIA
> Gad
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