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Hi Andrey, thanks a lot for your reply ! I did implement a workaround with the help of my inventory collector (we are using a mongo DB as inventory) so the inventory knows the already implemented patches of the HMC, with this I can avoid multiple patch ...
Hi Volker, great that you started automating your IBM Power environment with Ansible! Even if it is very desirable not every module in Ansible collections is idempotent. You are right, a module should usually not change something if it is already ...
I don't think such deep validation is possible. There are so many nuances which can fail LPM. Once I couldn't migrate an LPAR to a system because SAN switch already had the same WWPN registered on the target system. I have no clue, how and where it became ...
Benefits of Larger Logical Memory Block (LMB) Sizes In firmware FW1050, additional Logical Memory Block sizes have been introduced and this article will provide some guidance in the selection of LMB sizes that best fit different environments along ...
Virtual Trusted Platform Module (VTPM) 2.0 is a PowerVM feature introduced as part of the Power10 platform. It allows a logical partition to be configured with a virtual TPM device which complies with various versions of the TCG TPM 2.0 specification. ...
Introduction This blog describes improvements in AIX/VIOS Fibre channel(FC) device driver stack to update ODM attributes - num_cmd_elems and io_dma concurrently while the device is in configured state. The attribute ...
1. Introduction viosupgrade tool has been widely adopted by our customers for upgrading VIOS between major versions 2.2.6.x to 3.1 and this guide will help in seamless upgrade from versions 3.1.2.x or later to 4.1. viosupgrade interface automates ...
Introduction PowerVM VIOS 4.1 is a new version of VIOS that is built on top of AIX 7.3 (7.3 TL 2). This version of VIOS is enriched with lot of security features like physical volume & logical volume encryption, trusted boot, trusted ...