Nekonomicon - Picked up an IBM p520 (9131-52A)

aperezbios
From San Francisco Bay Area Peninsula
Who joined March 20, 2009, 9:40 p.m.

Wrote the following at May 6, 2014, 2:55 p.m...

Anybody else still have/use one of these beasts?

Mine appears to be a 2-way POWER5+ config. How do I determine what its licensed options are?

ClassicHasClass
From Sunny So Cal
Who joined July 25, 2012, 7:12 p.m.

Wrote the following at May 7, 2014, 1:58 p.m...

I have a p520, but it's a POWER6 (currently awaiting a new system backplane, sigh -- and the RAID array may be b0rked).

When you say licensed options, do you mean AIX? If you own the hardware, you are entitled to run AIX. Any CD set will do. The POWER5+ p520 can run 5.3 onwards and some very late TLs of 5.2. However, you'll be running it straight on the metal, no LPARs.

smit happens.

:Fuel:

bigred , 900MHz R16K, 4GB RAM, V12 DCD, 6.5.30
:Indy:

indy , 150MHz R4400SC, 256MB RAM, XL24, 6.5.10
:Indigo2IMP:

purplehaze , R10000, Solid IMPACT
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bruce , Quad 2.5GHz PowerPC 970MP, 16GB RAM, Mac OS X 10.4.11
plus IBM POWER6 p520 * Apple Network Server 500 * HP C8000 * BeBox * Solbourne S3000 * Commodore 128 * many more...

japes
From Lynnwood, WA
Who joined Nov. 8, 2007, 4:35 p.m.

Wrote the following at May 7, 2014, 6:50 p.m...

Classic, are you using LPARs on your 520? How are you managing them? I've only managed them with a HMC.

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