Legacy generation graph

Power 7 Lifecycle and Migration Graph

Place a Power 7 model inside the lifecycle, IBM i, maintenance, sizing, and replacement decisions that determine what must happen next.

Which Power 7 decision is blocking the move?

Every Power 7 model is beyond IBM hardware support. The decision is no longer whether the generation is current. It is how the current workload gets identified, protected, sized, and moved.

How the result is produced: Model tier, IBM i 7.3 coverage, recovery proof, and the blocking business objective add fit points to identification, bridge, sizing, and migration work.
Limit: The graph does not certify software compatibility. Exact program products, PTFs, device dependencies, and target hardware must be validated separately.

The generation graph is the receipt

Power 7 becomes more useful when it is treated as the origin of a documented migration sequence instead of a disconnected historical server. The model, release ceiling, lifecycle, intermediate generations, and current replacement class belong in the same record.