Use this information to understand the conversion paths, potential billable services, and changes that an expansion unit conversion might have on your existing hardware configuration.
When you convert any of the following expansion units, it is essential that you do detailed planning prior to the beginning of the conversion.
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This topic contains information for converting the following expansion units:
Billable services: Activities for existing features associated with converting multiple expansion units are potentially billable. Only the contents of an expansion unit being converted might be moved to the new expansion unit by an authorized service provider. Any other relocation or movement of features or server components is a billable service, which requires a contract for services with IBM®. For example, an expansion unit conversion might be a good opportunity to consolidate the contents of one or more expansion units into the converted expansion unit.
Movement of features from other expansion units or from any part of the server other than the expansion unit being converted is billable, as is removing other expansion units from the server, rearranging the server within its physical environment, or any other activity not necessary to convert the expansion unit and its content.
For a fee, High Availability or LPAR Planning and Implementation services will provide a planning session to discuss your requirements and provide a final hardware and software configuration, and implementation plan. The LPAR service specialist can also install and configure the new LPAR configuration. For more information concerning Integrated Technology Services (ITS) LPAR Planning and Implementation services, contact your IBM marketing representative or IBM Business Partner, or see Technical Support Services A - Z.
The following changes to the server resources occur as a result of the expansion unit conversion:
A 5065 expansion unit contains only one bus. After converting to the 5074 expansion unit, the 5074 has two buses reporting to the server. A 5066 expansion unit contains two buses. After converting to a 5079 expansion unit, four buses report to the server. The combined function I/O processors in the 5065 or 5066 expansion units are replaced with new combined function I/O processors and these are positioned as previously planned by using the System Planning Tool (SPT). Significant I/O rearrangement might occur with these conversions.