I want to thank everybody who has responded so far.  I think I've heard enough 
to stick with the current plan: stay on the H80 and test in the p670 to see how 
it runs.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Treptow, Craig 
> Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 4:23 PM
> To: NetView List (E-mail)
> Subject: [nv-l] Hardware options
> 
> 
> Hi.  Today we run AIX 5.1 on an H80, 4 CPU, with 2 GB RAM.  
> The group that maintains the hardware has purchased two new 
> pSeries 670's.  We are considering moving to those, but if we 
> do, we'd be allocated 1 CPU and 2 GB RAM.  
> 
> The hardware today is not taxed, and runs Netview quite well. 
>  In general it is about 95% idle.  I just restarted netmon, 
> and see it using about 30% CPU.  So, it appears that we could 
> easily live in the new machine, but if there were a problem, 
> there wouldn't be money to spend on hardware upgrades.
> 
> The machine only runs Netview, a caching DNS server, and the 
> other Tivoli managed node software (oserv, etc)
> 
> My gut feeling is that I should not move to one CPU, but view 
> 2 CPU's as a minimum. I think they'd be willing to do this.  
> 
> Does anybody else have some real world experience with the 
> new pSeries 670 (Regatta) hardware, or Netview's use of 
> multiple CPU's that would be helpful?
> 
> Thanks for anything you can share.
> 
> 
> Craig
> 
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