IBM Power hardware buying tool

IBM Power Hardware Upgrade Simulator

Compare keeping the current server with refurbished Power9, Power10, and Power11 hardware. Use workload fit, budget priority, and hold period to find the options worth pricing.

Which IBM Power hardware deserves a full cost model?

The tool narrows the hardware choices before you ask for quotes. It uses workload size, software fit, cash priority, and planned hold to show which servers are worth pricing in detail.

How the result is produced: Unlike the earlier version, workload size changes the ranking directly. IBM i requirements remove incompatible hardware choices. Budget priority and hold period then re-weight cash cost, runway, capacity, and remaining useful life.
Limit: Fit points are not dollars and are not a quote. Build the final comparison from real acquisition, maintenance, software tier, energy, migration, downtime, financing, tax, residual value, and growth assumptions.

How the IBM Power hardware tool now uses workload size

The earlier configuration tool asked for workload size but did not use it in the score. This version does. It also treats IBM i 7.6 as a compatibility gate and keeps fit points separate from actual dollars.

Price the IBM Power hardware after it fits the workload

Once the credible options are known, compare them with the same ownership window and the same categories: acquisition, maintenance, software tier, energy, migration, downtime, financing, tax, residual value, and growth.