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AS400/iSeries/Systemi/i5os - virtualization?

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nitrobass24

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My firm is looking to traing some of our staff to perform audits for AS400 because recently a lot of our new clients have these systems. We have people in house with the knowledge but would like to get our staff some hands on experience.

We have ESX4 environment and CITRIX Xen environment available, could setup Hyper-v if we need, but can anything virtualize AS400? I know its PowerPC based so my first thought is no, but i wanted to see if anyone here had experience with this?

What are some other options short of purchasing a system from IBM?
 
Sorry man, you're stuck with buying an IBM system and licensing i. The good news is you don't need a very big system though. You can probably find a cheap i520 (power5 based) or even get a power 6 520 used, but you're still going to have to deal with licensing the iseries os. If this is just for training then you can probably go with a gray market reseller and get stuff really cheap, but you won't get official IBM support without spending a bunch of money getting it recertified.
 
Yeah we have an i system where I work, and like he said, you are SOL. You can just try and get one on the cheap. Suxs that they have not embraced virtualization like others have :(.
 
Well that is were the money is for them. You want it? Then you hve to pay big time for it.

I would go for a used system, you can get some really cheap( compared to the price of a new one). But i advise you to do a bit of reaserch on what you needs are because there ara alot of diferent licences for those machines.
 
Diakiaoshinsama said:
Suxs that they have not embraced virtualization like others have :(.
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If I'm not mistaken, IBM invented the hypervisor. Not the x86 HV but the original hypervisor. They fully support virtualization and you cannot turn off PowerVM features with AIX 6.1.

Speaking in a practical sense though, they are in last place. At least 6.1 supports RHEL LPARs, a step in the right direction only because RH agreed to provide tier1-3 support. Everything takes 20 steps and is not quick and easy compared to any other virtualization product. Using PowerVM in a sense feels like virtualization 10yrs ago.
 
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