Inventory Migration - General information

Inventory Migration application is available under My Inventory menu. This ESS function allows you to perform migration of software entitlements and hardware activations at the same time. When conditions are met, you can migrate base or mobile hardware activations from Power9 to Power10 machines.

• Migrate Inventory authority is required for the Customer Number of the hardware in question
• Every ESS user has access to this new function

Base Capacity – permanently activated processor cores and memory gigabytes of an Authorized Machine in a Power Enterprise Pool 2.0, which are acquired and paid for in full by the Client

Mobile Capacity – activated processor cores and memory gigabytes of an Authorized Machine in a Power Enterprise Pool 1.0, which are acquired and paid for in full by Client and managed by a Hardware Management Console (HMC)

Power Enterprise Pool 1.0 – one or more Authorized Machines with Mobile Capacity resources

Power Enterprise Pool 2.0 – one or more Authorized Machines with Base Capacity resources that are monitored by a Cloud Management Console (CMC)

Donating “Donor” Machine – a Power E980, or Power E950, or Power S924, or Power S922 Authorized Machine with a quantity of Mobile or Base Capacity. At the time of transfer, each Donating Machine is installed in Client's Enterprise and is owned by Client (or Client’s leasing company)

Receiving “Target” Machine – a Power E1080, or Power E1050, or Power S1024, or Power S1022 Authorized Machine that is either owned by Client (or Client’s leasing company) or are sold to Client (or Client’s leasing company) by IBM or an IBM Business Partner under prices and terms that are specified in a separate agreement

Related customer numbers - Related customers in Inventory Migration allows software entitlements and hardware activation transfer between different related customers within the same enterprise as the selected main customer number - and each of them adds more machines into the inventory list.

This approach provides a more focused and relevant experience and allows you to work with only the customer numbers and their machines that you need to for the migration process.

Exchange rates - you can find them in Hardware activations migration rules

Feature Exchange Tables for Power Mobile and Base Capacity Migration you can find IBM Attachment for Power Mobile and Base Capacity Migration

Multi-donor and multi-target rules

• For every selected target, you can assign as many donors within the same legal enterprise as you need
• You are free to assign donors separately for every selected target
• When you make your selection, you are able to decide which software entitlements and which hardware activations can migrate from which donor to which target