Expansion

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Welcome
iSeries Upgrade Project By Daniel Skoy
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Overview

• DK Intro
• iSeries What is it? What is its main purpose?
  Why Upgrade?
• Current Configuration
• New Configuration
• Logistics and Money

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DK Healthcare Resources
Location St Louis Business Pharmaceutical
Distributor Setup Corporate office in St.
Louis, 6 Distribution centers that cover regions
from Minnesota to Texas Main operations
Customers send in orders through dial up
connections, web, customer service, and
fax Situation Recently acquired a private
distributor about 2/3 the size of our company
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iSeries Expansion Upgrade

• What is an iSeries server?
• Consolidation of divisions
• High transaction volume short time frame
• Nightly batch processing

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Current Configuration

• 1.4 Terabytes of disk
• 32 gigabytes of memory 6 processors
• 70 Disk utilization
• Growing at least 250 megabytes a day
• New company adds 180 meg daily
• Locked into a 2 year lease
• Production Development on same box

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New Configuration

• 870 Model
• 8 Power4 Processors
• 48 gb Memory
• 2.1 tb of Disk
• OS400 V5R2
• BATCH Server

• Current 830 Model
• 6 Processors
• 32 gb Memory
• 3.2 tb of Disk 1.8 new
• 6 Partitions (Servers)
• 7 Consoles
• OS400 V5R2

Gigabit Ethernet Connection (copper)
LAN
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Configuration contd

• 870 Production Applications
• Business Applications EDI
• PC Web order taking systems interface

• 830 6 LPARs(servers)
• Primary Partition Master Partition
• Partition 1 Purchasing Software / Telxon
  Interface
• Partition 2 Archive for all legacy applications
• Partition 3 Business Intelligence Software
• Partition 4 Production Backup
• Partition 5 Development Environment 1
• Partition 6 Development Environment 2

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Logistics Money

• Batch server vs. Enterprise Server
• Comm connections, floor space, IP addresses,
• AC, backups. What about building structure?
  2000 later we feel much better

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Logistics Contd

• Time Frame
• December 2003 Acquired new Company
• January 2004 Needs assessment
• February 2004 System Design
• March 2004 Price negotiations
• End of March 2004 IBM Ships new 870
• April 2004 Setup Install
• May 2004 Parallel testing
• June 2004 Cutover to 870

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QUESITONS?