Read Before Installing MPE/iX PowerPatch 1 Based on Release 6.5 (30216-90319)

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Information You Need Before Installing MPE/iX 6.5 PowerPatch 1
Support for Releases 5.5 and 6.0
Previous communications (e.g., the Spring 2000 HP e3000 Advisor) to 99x end-users have
noted that sales of some 99x memory products (the 256 MB, 512 MB and 768 MB memory
arrays) will be discontinued as of August 1, 2000. HP e3000 996/995/992/991/990
customers will need to buy any required additional HP supported memory prior to August
1, 2000. HP e3000 997 customers using MPE/iX Release 6.0 Express 1 or 6.5 will be able
to continue to purchase the 8 GB memory carrier board after August 1, 2000 (although
Release 6.0 Express 1 customers are limited to using only the first 3.75 GB of any loaded
memory).
So in summary, many HP e3000 applications will see added performance or greater
numbers of users using larger memory configurations (please check with your application
providers for details). However, greater than 3.75 GB memory configurations are limited
to PA8000 and PA8200 based servers (929KS/030, 939KS/030, 979KS, 989KS/x00,
989KS/x50 Servers and the 997 Servers) using MPE/iX Release 6.5.
Support for Releases 5.5 and 6.0
End of Support Dates for MPE/iX Releases 5.5 and 6.0:
Support for the 5.5 release will end on December 31, 2000. Customers should plan to
update to either MPE/iX 6.0 or MPE/iX 6.5 prior to this date. We would encourage most
customers to update to the 6.5 release since that release contains many performance and
capacity enhancements for high-end systems and bundled tools for using the HP e3000
with the Internet. Additionally, the 6.5 release will be supported longer than 6.0.
Support for the 6.0 release has been extended until April 30, 2002. Please be aware that
support for the 9x7 servers (917-987) will also end at this same time.
In the future, Hewlett-Packard will continue to provide 18 months notice before
terminating support of a given release as we have done for 5.5 and 6.0.