Related information for IBM i data migration

This document provides information about software and hardware changes that can potentially affect your system operations.

Use this information if you are upgrading your system with a new IBM i release. This manual is also a topic in the IBM i Information Center. See Installing, upgrading, or deleting IBM i and related software.

This book provides hardware concepts and technical specifications for models and features.

This book provides detailed information and configuration rules for these models and features.

This book discusses the various topics that are involved in migrating to PCI technology. It also looks at other significant functions like High Speed Link (HSL) and concurrent maintenance capability. This book includes upgrade scenarios to assist with your planning. It explains such upgrade functions as load source migration and migrating to LPAR functions. And it describes the expansion unit options that preserve an investment in hardware or that migrate to new technology.

This Web site contains information about the services IBM has available for helping you upgrade your system. This service includes a planning session that concludes with a final hardware and software configuration and installation plan. The services specialist can also perform on-site services to upgrade the system to the latest release of IBM i, convert your SPD-attached I/O to PCI-attached I/O, perform disk unit migration, system consolidation and more.

This Web site provides links to a variety of planning tools and information.

This Web site provides information about products or features that may not be supported in future releases of the IBM i operating system or on future models, Product Previews, and Statements of Directions.

The IBM System Planning tool (LPAR Validation tool) is a Web-based tool that assists users in planning for a partitioned environment.

This Web site contains an introduction to logical partitioning as well as information about planning, services, and education.

This reference provides highly technical information about system performance useful for performance benchmarking, capacity planning, and planning for system performance.

The Workload Estimator tool is a Web-based tool that provides users with a recommended model, processor, interactive feature, memory, and disk storage necessary for a mixed set of workloads.

Information within the PSP describes corrections that apply to migrations. Review this information before you migrate your data between systems.

Upgrading the system and data migration

Use this information if are upgrading your system with new hardware while retaining its serial number.

Logical partitions allow you to distribute resources within a single system to make it function as if it were two or more independent systems. This information describes the concepts for partitioning and steps you through the logical partition process from creation to management.