Upgrade planning - Future hardware

Future planning information provides insight into IBM's current plans, directions, and intent, and is subject to change or withdrawal without notice. Any reliance on this planning information is at the relying party's sole risk and will not create liability or obligation for IBM.

This site provides information on specific hardware products or features which are or will be supported on Power Systems, as well as those not planned to be supported by either future Power Systems or future releases of IBM i. Items that are not supported by future IBM i releases will not be supported on any system.

Models supported by IBM i

Browse a complete listing of System to IBM i mapping.

IBM i 7.3 will not support POWER6 systems:

• POWER6 BladeCenter models JS12, JS22, JS23, JS43  (7998-60X, 7998-61X, 7778-23X)
• POWER6 Power 520, 550, 560, 570, 595 (9407-M15, 9408-M25, 8203-E4A, 8261-E4S,
  9409-M50, 8204-E8A, 8234-EMA, 9406-MMA, 9117-MMA 9119-FHA)

IBM i support for POWER7 BladeCenter or POWER7/POWER7+ IBM Flex system compute nodes, April 2016

IBM i 7.3 is not supported on the following POWER7 BladeCenter or POWER7/POWER7+ IBM Flex system compute nodes

• IBM Flex System®™ p260 and p460 Compute Nodes for POWER7 or POWER7+ (7895-22X , 7895-42X, 7895-23X, 7895-23A, 7895-43X, 7954-24X)
• IBM BladeCenter® PS700, PS701, PS702, PS703 or PS704 (8406-70Y, 8406-71Y, 7891-73X, 7891-74X)

The IBM i Integrated Server solution will only be supported with the hardware and operating system versions that are currently listed in the iSCSI Solution Guide.

• There are no new planned enhancements to the IBM i Integrated Server product.
• There are no plans to support any new System x hardware.
• There are no plans to support any non-IBM hardware.
• There are no plans to support IBM i 7.3.

Details on the supported hardware models and operating system versions can be found on the iSCSI Service & Support page

For alternative solutions, refer to - IBM i integration with BladeCenter and System x