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Virtualisation Best Practices Webinar 14 Sept

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The team from IBM in the UK have been running some great webinars, and the next one promises to be a beauty. It's on Virtualisation (British spelling) Best Practices. A small error in the beginning is a big error in the end. It's true in philosophy, it's true in maths (British usage), it's true in taking directions and it's true in setting up your virtualised environment. It's much easier to use good planning before implementation than to have to untangle everything afterward. This webinar promises to cover how to: plan document implement... [More]

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Virtualise Storage with Style: Shared Storage Pools

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The team from IBM's Advanced Technology Support, Europe have done it again! Their free Webinar Series on Power Systems Virtualisation from IBM has another contribution from Nigel Griffiths, (a.k.a. Mr NMon). This presentation is on Shared Storage Pools from Experience - a kind of walk through of where the rubber hits the road. On the PowerVM Virtualisation Webinar Series Wiki , scroll down to Session 13: Shared Storage Pools ... from Experience. As you probably know, Shared Storage Pools allow you to have a large single chunk of storage... [More]

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AIX for smarties: what you ought to know (and probably already do)

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Look how much you know! Here I want to highlight three AIX courses on offer, and emphasise the value of keeping up to date with what's happening in AIX and Power Systems. But this post is also to serve as an encouragement to the many people out there who keep the wheels turning and think they only have a basic grasp of AIX. You probably know a lot more than you let on. There are some excellent AIX training courses and seminars available from time to time. Even if you've been in the game of AIX for years, there'll be something you can learn. In... [More]

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Too many Virtual Processors?

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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

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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... [More]

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Virtualisation Best Practices Webinar 14 Sept

Virtualise Storage with Style: Shared Storage Pools

AIX for smarties: what you ought to know (and probably already do)

Too many Virtual Processors?

HMC V7R7.2.0 allows dynamic VLANs on Power7