Our Capacity Planning folks reported that the upgrading from the z9 to th en z10 saved the bank beaucoup bucks. I think the same thing will happen going from z10 to z196 .
Did IBM raise the price of the entry-level machines? That might explain t he difference in our viewpoints. We are still running z/VM 5.4.0. I'm not sure what happened to the plan t o move to z/VM 6.1.0. There isn't much in z/VM 6.1.0 that we want. On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 11:58:54 -0500, Brian Nielsen <bniel...@sco.idaho.gov > wrote: >On Sat, 25 Sep 2010 21:53:04 -0400, Alan Altmark <alan_altm...@us.ibm.co m> >wrote: > >>z/VM did not cast off the z9. z/VM 5.4 has continued to receive >>significant updates and will stay in service for the next several years . > >Even though z/VM 5.4 will be in service for the next several years, ther e >are already concerns about the cost of upgrading to z10's in order to st ay >on a supported z/VM version. Alternatives under consideration include >migrating z/Linux guests to VMware vs running an unsupported version of >z/VM. Any chance that z/VM 5.4 will stay in service beyond Sept 2013? > >Brian Nielsen >======================== ========================= ========== =============
