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Posted By Jim Allen Tue December 14, 2021 06:15 PM
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Overview Virtual Persistent Memory (vPMEM) is provisioned by the Hardware Management Console (HMC) from DRAM in the CEC (Central Electronics Complex) and assigned to an LPAR. Unlike normal DRAM, the contents of vPMEM remain valid across LPAR reboots as long as the CEC is not rebooted. This also ...
Posted By Jim Allen Wed November 11, 2020 03:46 PM
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The T11 Fibre channel standards group has introduced a new fabric congestion notification mechanism in FC-LS-5, which adds a new Extended Link Service (ELS), Fabric Performance Impact Notification (FPIN). When the fabric detects congestion/link issues, the fabric sends an FPIN ELS to all N_Ports that ...
Posted By Jim Allen Mon November 09, 2020 05:27 PM
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Updated December 7, 2022 (for Power 10, AIX 7.3, AIX 7.2 TL 5 SP5 changes, AIX 7.3 TL 1/VIOS 3.1.4 FC-NVMe NPIV changes) AIX 7.2 TL 5 and AIX 7.3 on a Power 9 host (with FW 950 or later) or Power 10 host (FW 1010 or later) support installing the base operating system to FC-NVMe disks which are switch ...