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Hardware Management Console : Be autonomous with upgrade, update, and use the...
I’m sure that like me you do not have a physical access to your Hardware Management Consoles, or even if you have this access, some of your HMC are so far away from your working site (even in a foreign...
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PowerVM Shared Ethernet Adapter simplification : Get rid of Control Channel...
Since I started working on Virtual I/O Servers and PowerVM I’ve created many Shared Ethernet Adapters in all modes (standard, failover, or sharing). I’ve learned one important lesson “be careful when...
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Automating systems deployment & other new features : HMC8, IBM Provisioning...
I am involved in a project where we are going to deploy dozen of Power Systems (still Power7 for the moment, and Power8 in a near future). All the systems will be the same : same models with the same...
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Using the Simplified Remote Restart capability on Power8 Scale Out Servers
A few weeks ago I had to work on simplified remote restart. I’m not lucky enough yet -because of some political decisions in my company- to have access to any E880 or E870. We just have a few scale-out...
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NovaLink ‘HMC Co-Management’ and PowerVC 1.3.0.1Dynamic Resource Optimizer
Everybody now knows that I’m using PowerVC a lot in my current company. My environment is growing bigger and bigger and we are now managing more than 600 virtual machines with PowerVC (the goal is to...
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