206 IBM eServer zSeries 900 Technical Guide
6.1 Concurrent upgrades
The z900 servers have the capability of concurrent upgrades, providing additional capacity
with no
server outage. In most cases, with prior planning and operating system support, a
concurrent upgrade can also be nondisruptive, meaning with no
system outage.
Given today's business environment, benefits of the concurrent capacity growth capabilities
provided by z900 servers are plentiful, and include:
Enabling exploitation of new business opportunities
Supporting the growth of e-business environments
Managing the risk of volatile, high growth, high volume applications
Supporting 24x7x365 application availability
Enabling capacity growth during “lock down” periods
This capability ...