• The Four Hundred
  • Subscribe
  • Media Kit
  • Contributors
  • About Us
  • Contact
Menu
  • The Four Hundred
  • Subscribe
  • Media Kit
  • Contributors
  • About Us
  • Contact
  • Big Blue Tweaks Red Hat Deal for Power Systems

    August 22, 2011 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    IBM has updated a special Linux promotion it announced last year for Red Hat and SUSE Linux variants running on Power Systems machines.

    Under the Linux on Power Systems Capacity Upgrade on Demand offering in announcement letter 310-240, announced August 17 last year, IBM gave customers with spare and unused processor capacity on selected Power Systems machines freebie Linux licenses and memory capacity to support them. The deal offered free Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 or 5 and free SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 and 11 licenses on Power 570 servers using Power6 and Power6+ processors, Power 595 servers using Power6 processors, and Power 770 and 780 machines using Power7 processors. You can activate up to eight cores and 32 GB of memory under the deal and run Linux on them on Big Blue’s nickel; you could only do it on one machine per company, however.

    In announcement letter 311-115, which came out on August 16 this year, the Linux freebie deal is being updated to cover the more recent Enterprise Linux 6.0 and 6.1 releases from Red Hat (RHEL 4 and 5 have been removed) and now also includes the Power 795 server.

    IBM has not offered a similar capacity-on-demand license for entry and midrange Power7-based machines, which is an oversight. If you have such a machine, or are buying one, make a fuss and make IBM throw in a couple of cores of free Linux. You’ll find a use for it. Fear not.

    RELATED STORY

    IBM Cuts Power Systems Shops a Linux Price Break



                         Post this story to del.icio.us
                   Post this story to Digg
        Post this story to Slashdot

    Share this:

    • Reddit
    • Facebook
    • LinkedIn
    • Twitter
    • Email

    Tags:

    Sponsored by
    Trinity Guard

    Register to Attend Webinar: IBM i Network Security

    From exit point traffic to lesser visible socket connections, applications connect to IBM i in various forms and pose security risks.

    Join this 1-hour session to learn the how-to’s of securing network connections to your IBM i and safeguard against costly security breaches.

    Thursday, March 25
    12 Noon CT  / 10AM PT  /  1PM ET

    Share this:

    • Reddit
    • Facebook
    • LinkedIn
    • Twitter
    • Email

    Attachmate Bolsters Security of MFT Offering Flash Builder for PHP 4.5.1 Gets iOS Support

    Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Volume 20, Number 29 -- August 22, 2011
THIS ISSUE SPONSORED BY:

Maxava
Help/Systems
Townsend Security
inFORM Decisions
Twin Data Corporation

Table of Contents

  • More Details Emerge on Future Power7+ and Power8 Chips
  • IBM Taps Software Exec For Power Systems Marketing
  • EnterpriseDB Sets Sights on Oracle’s MySQL
  • As I See It: Paying Attention
  • Mad Dog 21/21: How To Downgrade Your Business Partner
  • Big Blue Tweaks Red Hat Deal for Power Systems
  • IBM Cuts BNT Switch Tags, Adds Fibre Channel SAN Switches
  • Services Power Jack Henry to Record Revenues in Fiscal 2011
  • Kronos Sells Lots of HR Software On Premise and In Its Cloud
  • Status Update: Sick and Tired of Social Media

Content archive

  • The Four Hundred
  • Four Hundred Stuff
  • Four Hundred Guru

Recent Posts

  • Why Open Source Is Critical for Digital Transformation
  • mrc Refreshes IBM i Low-Code Dev Tool
  • Unit Testing Automation Hits Shift Left Instead of Ctrl-Alt-Delete Cash
  • Four Hundred Monitor, March 3
  • IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 23, Number 9
  • Doing The Texas Two Step From Power9 To Power10
  • PHP’s Legacy Problem
  • Guru: For IBM i Newcomers, An Access Client Solutions Primer
  • IBM i 7.1 Extended Out To 2024 And Up To The IBM Cloud
  • Some Practical Advice On That HMC-Power9 Impedance Mismatch

Subscribe

To get news from IT Jungle sent to your inbox every week, subscribe to our newsletter.

Pages

  • About Us
  • Contact
  • Contributors
  • Four Hundred Monitor
  • IBM i PTF Guide
  • Media Kit
  • Subscribe

Search

Copyright © 2021 IT Jungle

loading Cancel
Post was not sent - check your email addresses!
Email check failed, please try again
Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.