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POWER System Firmware Warnings & Red Lights on the Dashboard
Earlier today I received email from a customer reporting their large POWER7 based machines where on firmware 720_64 to 720_90 and their reluctance to take the outage to upgrade it. They were asking for fine details of newer firmware levels and what advantages this would bring to " justify the outage to their user departments ". To be blunt this is a horror story: I lay awake at night in a cold sweat about stories like this. The customer has the whole "running computers plan upside down". The question should be " can... [More]
Tags: system power power795 dashboard aix power770 power7 hacmp mirror firmware lpm power780 |
Live Partition Mobility (LPM) - frustrating validation failure HSCLA27C
I have been using Shared Storage Pools phase 2 (SSP2) on the beta test a lot recently and it works well - I am very impressed. One key side effect of SSP2 is that it really makes Live Partition Mobility (LPM) very simple and safe. But then I hit a problem that stumped me - nothing to do with the SSP2 technology - it was just that I in the Advanced Technical Support group have got rusty in setting up and using LPM. The first problem that most people hit is that the source and target Power machines must have the same LMB size - the what??... [More]
Tags: ssp2 ssp lpm vios aix powervm power7 lpar vtopt vm |
