One of the big reasons for going to a Power 9 was the three year warranty.
Methinks you would lose that with a used machine.
That being said I feel like we got 2 Hershey bars and a Coke trade in
value for our Power 8's so maybe the used market is a deal (at least to
the middlemen).
We used to have two 8286-41A and one 8286-42A. It had something to do
with expandability. Something about a split back plane and internal dasd
configuration. The 42A was our main production box. However all of them
had at least 5 lpars of IBM i and two lpars of vios each. Two of them
also had a lpar of AIX.
The only internal dasd we used was one mirrored drive for each vios lpar.
The dasd for the hosting lpar of IBM i went into expansion units.
But a BP should be able to answer that better.
Rob Berendt
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