Originally posted by: praguer

I am managing a 9115-505 with 4GB RAM and 2 300GB disks. It has been running at AIX 5.3.7 for a while.

The system is a non-profit server for database, mail and web services. Is it worth upgrading to AIX 6 (cost vs gain)? Or, dare I ask, go to Linux (AIX help is really difficult to find here)

Thank you for any pointers.

Lanny
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Originally posted by: Ashok_AIX_Admin

It depends on the business needs. Think from the business perspective and try to answer the following questions yourself.

1. What is the business need for the AIX P6 upgrade?
2. Is it driven by the requirements in terms of Performance and Scalability?
3. How new features in P6 such as NPIV, advanced POWERVM, AMS can benefit the business?
There has to be some value add in upgrading your server apart from the pride factor to say "Hey all our servers are running latest hardware".
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Originally posted by: praguer

Thank you for your response.

1) There is no business need.
2) See 1
3) Thank you for pointing out the new features. I will read up on them.

And you are also right in your closing remark - though I think it applies to software as well. I'd love to upgrade to learn to new stuff but then, perhaps, my HW config would not be enough and we, being a charity, cannot spend money just so the techie (me) has a sandbox :)
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