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PowerVM VIOS 3.1 is a new version of VIOS that is based on AIX 7.2 (AIX 7.2 TL3). The primary drivers for rebasing the VIOS to the latest version of AIX were modernization, security, and resiliency. ...

1. Introduction IBM introduced a new version-release of the Virtual IO Server (VIOS), VIOS 3.1, based on AIX 7.2 (TL-03), in November 2018. VIOS 3.1 improvements focused primarily on the following ...

IBM Virtualization Best Practice Guide - Version 4 updates The IBM Power System Performance team recently published an update to the IBM POWER Virtualization Best Practices Guide . This guide provides ...

What is NVMe? Non-Volatile Memory express (NVMe) was developed as an industry specification for accessing non-volatile storage via the PCIe interface. NVMe was a grounds up specification ...

Overview I/O Virtualization is one of the founding pillars of PowerVM. Virtual IO Server (VIOS) is a software appliance in PowerVM that facilitates virtualization of storage and network resources. ...

Overview The combination of IBM's Power servers, PowerVM virtualization, and Cisco ACI software-defined capabilities bring best of breed products together for the best performance, security, flexibility ...

By Kamal Tandon, Mahendra Pote and Sandeep Redkar This blog post will help Oracle WebLogic Server system administrators optimize app server performance on IBM Power® Systems running AIX, immediately ...

Welcome to the IBM PowerVM Development Community. We have created this medium and its companion LinkedIn Group to enable direct communications between the end user and the PowerVM development team. Our ...

HMC Support For IBM OpenPower Systems With an increase in demand for an IBM hardware management and serviceability solution for our IBM Power AC/LC systems, the HMC responded with the most recent ...

How to Setup Call Home In a previous blog we discussed the the benefits of using Call Home. Faster diagnostics, automatic upload of error logs, Inventory and Performance Management are all designed ...

Events Manager for Call Home In previous blogs we covered how to set up call home on the HMC. That blog included instructions on how to configure the HMC to run in Events Manager mode. Events ...

What is an "update access key"? POWER8 (and later) servers include an “update access key” that is checked when system firmware updates are applied to the system. In order to be installed, the firmware ...

Call Home Overview Call Home, implemented via Electronic Service Agent, is designed to increase system availability by providing round-the-clock monitoring of your Power Systems by IBM. ...

With the release of 930 HMC and 930 system firmware in mid-May 2019, a new version of Power Enterprise Pools is available. Power Enterprise Pools 2.0 with Utility Capacity (PEP 2.0) aims to simplify pool ...

Overview Server-side caching is one of the powerful new features developed by IBM in AIX® operating system. The feature helps to significantly improve the performance of your I/O (storage) intensive ...

Enhancements for Shared Storage Pools PowerVM continues to enhance Shared Storage Pools (SSP), PowerVM's cloud storage. SSP simplifies cloud management and improves storage efficiency. PowerVM 2.2.5 ...

Introduction IBM® PowerVM Shared Storage Pools (SSP), is a pool of storage to be shared among different Virtual I/O servers on single or multiple host servers. SSP is based on cluster of Nodes and ...

PowerVM continues to improve Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) with Shared Storage Pools (SSP), which simplifies cloud management and efficiency of storage usage. PowerVM 2.2.6 includes a VIOS SSP performance ...

New features for Shared Storage Pool PowerVM continues to improve Shared Storage Pools, which simplifies cloud management and efficiency of storage usage. PowerVM 2.2.4 includes the following ...