An end of service life announcement can spell trouble for it managers.
Ibm power 750 end of support.
Get the latest end of life information for the power 750 from park place technologies.
8 core 3 5 ghz 8336 8 core 3 6 ghz epa1 6 core 3 7 ghz epa2.
Power 6 end of support date is 31st march 2019 7998 61x eclipz blade.
Below is a listing of the ibm features on power systems which have now been classified with an end of maintenance date.
10 30 2020.
However as is the case with most enterprise hardware oems that price of continued support had already increased significantly after the initial three to four year warranty expired.
Hardware eosl for power7 officially starts at the end of september 2019.
When ibm decides it will no longer support its storage server or network hardware it teams are left scrambling trying to figure out what they can do to deal with the problem without breaking the budget.
Clearing the decks ahead of the power9 launch.
The ibm power 750 8408 e8d system is based on power7 processor based technology.
9119 fha power 595.
The ibm power 750 express 8233 e8b system is based on power7 processor based technology.
9125 f2a power 575.
The ibm power 750 express server 8233 e8b supports up to four of the following processor cards in a rack mount drawer configuration.
Use this information to find the system overview and the planning installing removing replacing configuring and troubleshooting procedures.
Say sayonara to ibm i 7 1 next spring.
For the power7 iron the end of support being two years out gives those customers the shot in the arm to upgrade to 7 2 or 7 3 before the end of support for 7 1 happens on april 30 2018.
Going off ibm hardware maintenance a risky move.
Use this information to find the system overview and the planning installing removing replacing configuring and troubleshooting procedures.
8203 e4a power 520.
Upcoming ibm eosl dates.
After the dates stated below and in the attached announcement ibm will no longer offer standard hardware maintenance service for the following listed machine types.
4 core 3 7 ghz epa3 8 core 3 2 ghz epa4 the power7 processors in this server are 64 bit 4 core 6 core and 8 core modules packaged on dedicated processor cards with 4 mb of l3 cache core and 256 kb of l2 cache core.
8204 e8a power 550.
This way they re at least prepped to transfer to a supported release on power8 when they re ready to do a hardware migration sometime within the next two years.
In summary the products effected by this announcement are.
Ibm inks in end of support for power6 and power7 iron.
Power 6 end of support date is 31st march 2019.
6 core 3 3 ghz 8335 8 core 3 0 ghz 8334 8 core 3 3 ghz 8332.
Ibm i 7 2 end dates revealed as power7 shutdown looms.
So you have the option to pay for ibm s continued maintenance support until then.