In a previous post I discussed how you can identify some of the different types of a PowerVM Capacity on Demand (CoD) activation keys from IBM.   Recently I had to Activate Memory Expansion (AME) on a couple of POWER7 systems. I discovered that all of the keys contained a similar string. It appears that if a CoD key contains the string CA1F0000000800 then it is safe to assume it will activate AME for a particular system. e.g.     9741EF3AE6969F17 CA1F0000000800 419D  937A1240F00F5B05 CA1F0000000800 413D   And while I’m talking about AME,... [More]

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