The ibm power systems information describes the ibm power systems servers.
Ibm power 770 end of life.
Get the latest end of life information for the power 770 ioc from park place technologies.
Ibm power systems is the name of the family of servers based on power processors.
However the power7 iron kind of took me by surprise specifically the 8202 e4b and 8202 e4c.
Soon all ibm power 7 machines will be history.
Select a specific version or edition of power8 documentation.
Power 6 end of support date is 31st march 2019.
Ibm will be discontinuing hardware support on power6 machines at end of q1 2019 and for power7 at end of q3.
If you run ibm i on ibm power systems this will hopefully come as a friendly reminder.
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Product announcement general availability marketing withdrawal and service discontinuance.
Written by steve pitcher on september 19 2017 ibm announced that a number of machines will be going out of maintenance in the next two years.
In summary the products effected by this announcement are.
The power 770 can be installed in a 7014 t00 7014 b42 7014 s25 or 7014 t42 and shipped from ibm to the client rack.
Each enclosure occupies 4u of vertical rack space.
10 30 2020.
The power6 iron is to really be expected.
Upcoming ibm eosl dates.
Even though the power 720 didn t seem that old it is.
Each family of the ibm z mainframe hardware products have followed a similar life cycle pattern.
Historically each mainframe generation has had a long life from general availability to service discontinuance averaging over 11 years.
Upcoming ibm eosl dates.
Some ibm power 7 machines have already been retired and support is available via ibm s hardware support extension.
07 31 2020.
Power 770 end of service life.
Preparing for ibm power7 going end of service life eosl perhaps you were fully expecting the end of service life eosl announcement for your power6 units.
Below is a listing of the ibm features on power systems which have now been classified with an end of maintenance date.
A full listing of all affected power 7 models and product names is listed in the description.
