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How to upgrade vHMC from V8R870 to V9R1

  • 1.  How to upgrade vHMC from V8R870 to V9R1

    Posted Mon March 08, 2021 08:13 AM
    I am looking for information about how to upgrade a vHMC running on VMWare from V8R870 to V9R1.  I have found information about how to upgrade from V9R1 to V9R2M950, but nothing about upgrading from V8R870 to V9R1:  https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6372280
    Can I use the same upgrade process for V9R1?

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    Helle Koppang
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  • 2.  RE: How to upgrade vHMC from V8R870 to V9R1

    IBM Champion
    Posted Tue March 09, 2021 01:26 AM
    Hi,

    IBM guys can comment better &confirm,  but I would believe that the same approach should be totally doable.

    My personal experience on vHMCs has been that if you don't have very complex setup (tens of users, frames, scheduled jobs etc)..it is quite fast & straightforward to just scratch the existing vHMC and do fresh new install on the new major level; install needed iFixes & then after that restore configs via HMC CLI with pre-modified hmc commands; that is how I have done those so far without any issues..

    Br,
    tommi

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    Tommi Sihvo, Lead Service Architect
    TietoEVRY, Compute Services
    email tommi.sihvo@tieto.com mobile +358 (0)40 5180 Finland
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  • 3.  RE: How to upgrade vHMC from V8R870 to V9R1

    Posted Tue March 09, 2021 04:46 AM

    Thank you Tommi.

    I just checked some more around on the FTP server and I found the network install files for V9R1.  I didn't find them yesterday; I must have misspelled something. 

    So, I will try the network install approach.  My problem was that I only had the OVA-files to start with.  And I don't know if they can be "mounted" in VMWare as a recovery DVD would be for a physical server.  But with the network files I can follow the instructions.



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    Helle Koppang
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  • 4.  RE: How to upgrade vHMC from V8R870 to V9R1

    IBM Champion
    Posted Tue March 09, 2021 05:05 AM
    Ok, Good to hear! And Good luck with the upgrade! :)

    Br,
    tommi

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    Tommi Sihvo, Lead Service Architect
    TietoEVRY, Compute Services
    email tommi.sihvo@tieto.com mobile +358 (0)40 5180 Finland
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  • 5.  RE: How to upgrade vHMC from V8R870 to V9R1

    Posted Tue March 09, 2021 03:48 AM
    Hi,

    You can follow the link below for this upgrade.

    https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/model-7042x86-upgrading-hmc-version-886-or-later-version-9

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    Jeyakumar
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    L.R Jeyakumar
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  • 6.  RE: How to upgrade vHMC from V8R870 to V9R1

    Posted Tue March 09, 2021 05:06 AM

    Thank you Jeyakumar

    I see that the title of this instruction might have misled me to think that it was only for the physical HMC.  I now see further down that it also refers to vHMC.  I had downloaded the OVA file for V9R1 from ESS, but in this instruction it looks like I can use an ordinary V9R1 Recovery image.  I though I had to use a special one.  But that might only be for first time install.



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    Helle Koppang
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  • 7.  RE: How to upgrade vHMC from V8R870 to V9R1

    IBM Champion
    Posted Tue March 09, 2021 04:14 AM
    Helle,

    Hi, you should be able to use https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/687971 as a guide to upgrading your vHMC from 8.8.7.0 to v9r1.

    Regards, Steve

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    Steve Munday
    AIX, IBM i, HMC, PowerVM
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  • 8.  RE: How to upgrade vHMC from V8R870 to V9R1

    Posted Tue March 09, 2021 05:07 AM

    Thank you Steve

    Also this instructions title misled me.  I guess lesson learned is to read a bit further down.



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    Helle Koppang
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  • 9.  RE: How to upgrade vHMC from V8R870 to V9R1

    Posted Tue March 09, 2021 03:52 PM
    Here's a good matrix for all the HMC upgrade instructions.
    https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/recommended-fixes-hmc-code-upgrades.

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    Greg Lardinais
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  • 10.  RE: How to upgrade vHMC from V8R870 to V9R1

    Posted Wed March 10, 2021 04:42 AM
    Thank you Greg

    This matrix is excellent.  I have bookmarked it :-)

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    Helle Koppang
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