Upgrade concepts

Review both the process for upgrading your server and some considerations for upgrading a partitioned server. Find information about which servers you can upgrade to the new iSeries™ servers. Learn the terminology that is used in this topic.

An upgrade is the process of changing from one iSeries server, hardware feature, or software version to another iSeries server, hardware feature, or software version while retaining the serial number of the source server. For more information about upgrades, select any of these topics:

• Upgrade terminology
• Upgrade process
• Partitioned server upgrades
• Upgrade paths
• Capacity on Demand

  Learn how you can activate additional processors to upgrade your server without upgrading to a new server.

• Upgrade terminology
  Use this information to understand upgrade terms.
• Upgrade process
  Use this information to learn the flow and timing for upgrading a nonpartitioned server.
• Partitioned server upgrades
  Find information unique to upgrading a partitioned server.
• Upgrade paths
  If you cannot upgrade your server to an 8 xx model, you can migrate the data from your server to a new model. For information about migrating your data to a new server, see Migration.