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Our previous blog on What’s new in HMC V9 R1.910.0 , mentioned a set of Remote Restart Enhancements. This blog provides details on the Simplified Remote Restart enhancement being introduced with HMC V9 R1.910.0. Remote Restart a partition with reduced or minimum CPU/Memory on the Target...
With the introduction of PowerVM based POWER9 enterprise class scale-out servers, comes a newer version of HMC. HMC V9 R1.910 has many enhancements along with the ability to manage the Power 9 servers. Let’s take a quick look at the enhancements in HMC V9 R9.1.910. PowerVM: In addition...
HMC V8 R8.7.0 is a major release that introduces support for HMC running on the the Power Platform and enables previously missing UI functions via the Enhanced UI. Here’s a quick overview of what’s new in HMC V8 R8.7.0. HMC on Power: HMC V8 R8.7.0 introduces support for HMC on Power...
Typically HMC does not add new functional enhancements in a service pack, but we want to rapidly deliver enhancements you need or have requested and don't want you wait for the next major release that would force an upgrade to get new functional enhancements. Hence the following functional...
In a typical PowerVM environment, when partition configuration changes are done dynamically (with the partition active) using HMC, you would, in most cases, like to have the configuration change saved to the profile as well; this way you don’t lose the changes on the next shutdown and activate....
In a data center, there might be scenarios where a system outage can happen, either planned or unplanned. Some examples of a planned outage could be for upgrading to a new firmware release, on the system or could be a scheduled power outage or could be for hardware maintenance on the system. ...
Ever wondered about operations being performed via the HMC or what problems are found or how you can be alerted about potential problems? HMC logs information on operations performed, provides alerts on problems and provides mechanism to capture logs to a remote system. This blog provides an...
Overview PowerVM’s Remote Restart technology allows VMs to be restarted on another system when a Power system has failed. This functionality requires PowerVM Enterprise Edition and accelerates recovery times by allowing VMs to be restarted on other systems without needing manual processes to...
Overview The HMC virtual appliance gives clients additional flexibility to manage IBM Power Systems servers by providing the option to supply your own x86 hardware and server virtualization to host the HMC. This can be useful for instances where existing HMC hardware models you may have don...