A colleague of mine contacted me during the week to ask how one could determine if a POWER7 system was capable of Active Memory Expansion. I thought I'd share my response with everyone who follows my blog.   You can check if the system is capable of providing Active Memory Expansion (AME), from the HMC command line using the lssyscfg command, as shown here:   hscroot@hmc1:~> lssyscfg -r sys -m Server-8233-E8B-SN1000 -F active_mem_expansion_capable 1 Alternatively you can view the capabilities of the managed system from the HMC GUI,... [More]

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