Maximo Infrastructure Changes © 2013 IBM Corporation Infrastructure Changes • • An upgrade is a great time to review your infrastructure • Do you need new hardware • Are you going to run on virtual servers • Are Operating Systems and middleware versions out of support by those vendors Evaluate the use of existing hardware or acquire new hardware • Available hardware that can be repurposed for the upgrade, to test the upgrade and do your design and customizations and use for testing and training • Older hardware and running in 32-bit environment. Performance gains moving to 64-bit • Understanding Memory Requirements For 32 And 64 Bit Systems • http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21405335 • 64-bit requirement • http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21615495 2 © 2013 IBM Corporation Infrastructure Changes • • • Rolling out Maximo to new teams in the organization Planning on more reports, integrations, crons, escalations, etc. Plan for hardware to grow the Maximo implementation • Maximo 7.5 and 7.6 has changes to the hardware and infrastructure requirements • Older versions no longer supported • Upgrade STE which has a architecture section • https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27034270 • Maximo 7.5 System Requirements • https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/IBM%20Maximo%20 Asset%20Management/page/Version%207.5.0.5 • Maximo 7.6 System Requirements • https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/IBM%20Maximo%20 Asset%20Management/page/Version%207.6 3 © 2013 IBM Corporation 4 © 2013 IBM Corporation