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Running the Virtual HMC on your Apple MacBook Pro.
My colleague in Lab Services, Ben Swinney, recently configured the Virtual HMC on his Apple Macbook. He was kind enough to write up his experience, so that others could also run the vHMC on their Mac. Me included! You can find Ben’s instructions here: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/cgaix/resource/vHMC_running_on_Apple_hardware.pdf Thanks Ben!
Tags:  hardware gibson power8 systems power ibm management swinney vhmc chris hmc aix virtual ben console |
A journey into the world of VLAN tagging and Virtual I/O!
I just had to share this entertaining presentation with everyone. http://gibsonnet.net/AIX/ibm/Journey_in_VLAN_world.pps Or the PDF. It's not as interesting or fun, as the animations don't work but you get the idea. I'm sharing the PDF because it appears that you can open this file on Windows fine (in read-only mode) but on a Mac it prompts for a password without an option for opening in read-only. Shame. https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/cgaix/resource/Journey_in_VLAN_world.pdf It was... [More]
Tags:  powervm lemal chris aix vlan vio ibm bernard gibson |
AIX or Linux on POWER?
IBM made some announcements today relating to
their latest POWER7 server offerings. The new line of systems includes new
entry level systems and the highly anticipated high-end system, the POWER7 795 !
They also officially outlined some of
the new features available in AIX 7.1. You can review the details here .
I’ve discussed some of these new features here and here .
The official AIX 7.1 announcement details are available here . The announcement got me thinking about my
recent customer engagements and why some have chosen to deploy... [More]
Tags:  chris linux gibson ibm power aix |