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Too many Virtual Processors?
The AIX Virtual User Group continues its impressive lineup of speakers. This month Janel Barfield stepped through Partition Creation Settings . She covered plenty of aspects of the menus in the HMC where you create a logical partition, including the most misunderstood aspect of LPAR creation: Virtual Processors . Here are my rough transcripts of some important sections which were addressed. The first one comes in at about 19:40 into the presentation recording and deals with the concern many people have of assigning too many virtual processors... [More]
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HMC V7R7.2.0 allows dynamic VLANs on Power7
The HMC V7R7.2.0 has been released and it includes a feature which has long been in demand: the ability to change VLANs dynamically on virtual ethernet adapters. Hooray! The documentation for the HMC release notes explain that this feature is for Power7 servers only: The chhwres command has been enhanced to support dynamically changing the properties of a virtual Ethernet adapter which is assigned to a running partition ( POWER7 servers only) . The properties that can be changed are the IEEE 802.1Q setting, the virtual LANs , and the... [More]
Tags: virtual vlan hardware_management_conso... ethernet network dynamic_lpar firmware sea aix hmc corrective_service aix_virtual_user_group shared_ethernet_adapter webinar mac_address remote |
