SSNSJL - Documentation Index

Table of Contents

• Welcome
• Linux on Power Systems servers
  • Linux on Power overview
    • Linux distributions and virtualization options for Power10 and Power11 Linux on Power servers
    • Linux distributions and virtualization options for POWER8 and POWER9 Linux on Power systems
    • Linux distributions for POWER6 and POWER7 Linux on Power systems
    • Processor compatibility modes
      • Compatibility modes on supported servers
      • Live partition mobility for Power Systems servers
      • Compatibility modes and specific Linux distributions
      • Determining processor type and compatibility mode
      • PDF files for processor compatibility modes
  • Installing and setting up Linux on Power Systems servers
    • Installing Linux on Power Systems servers
      • Quick start guides for installing Linux
        • Installing Linux on Power11 and Power10 systems
          • Installing Linux on PowerVM LPAR by using the HMC
          • Installing Linux on PowerVM LPAR on an unmanaged eBMC system
        • Installing Linux on POWER9 systems
          • Quick Start Guide
          • Quick Start Guide
          • Installing Linux on PowerVM LPAR by using the HMC
        • Installing Linux on POWER8 systems
          • Quick Start Guide
          • Quick Start Guide
          • Quick Start Guide
          • Quick Start Guide
          • Installing Linux on PowerVM LPAR by using the HMC
      • Additional installation methods
        • Installing Linux on PowerVM LPAR by using virtual DVD (vDVD)
        • Installing Linux on PowerVM LPAR by using bootable USB drive
        • Kickstart files for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
        • AutoYaST2 for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
          • Agama-based installation for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
        • Network installation
      • IBM Linux on Power tools repository
        • Installing the tools repository
        • Installing packages with the tools repository
    • Installing Linux on OPAL bare metal systems
      • Installing Linux on OPAL POWER8 systems
        • Quick start guides for Linux on IBM Power System LC servers
          • Quick Start Guide
          • Quick Start Guide
          • Quick Start Guide
          • Quick Start Guide
          • Quick Start Guide
          • Quick Start Guide
        • Resetting your network back to DHCP
        • Updating firmware on a Power System LC server
      • Installing Linux on OPAL POWER9 systems
        • Quick start guides for Linux on IBM Power System servers
          • Quick Start Guide
          • Quick Start Guide
          • Quick Start Guide
          • Quick Start Guide
          • Quick Start Guide
        • Resetting your network back to DHCP
        • Updating firmware on a Power System server with OpenBMC
      • Petitboot bootloader
        • Configuring Petitboot
        • Editing Petitboot configuration options
  • Performance
    • Getting started with the perf command
    • 64-bit DMA performance benefits
      • 64-bit DMA concepts
      • PCIe adapters on POWER processor-based systems that take advantage of 64-bit DMA
      • Enabling 64-bit Huge DMA
  • Overview of the PCIe3 CAPI and PCIe3 FPGA compression accelerator adapters
    • PCIe3 CAPI (EJ1A/EJ1B) Compression Accelerator Adapter
    • PCIe3 FPGA (EJ12/EJ13) Compression Accelerator Adapter
    • Installing the Generic Work Queue Engine
    • Bitstream
    • Troubleshooting GenWQE
  • PCIe3 FPGA (EJ12/EJ13) Compression Accelerator Adapter
  • Installing the Generic Work Queue Engine
  • Bitstream
  • Troubleshooting GenWQE
  • Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe)
    • NVMe drives
    • NVMe controllers
    • NVMe namespaces
    • NVMe shared namespaces on multipath devices (FW 1060 and later)
      • NVMe shared namespaces on multipath devices
      • NVMe namespaces on NED24 with FW 1040 and 1050
      • Installing Linux on a NVMe device in a multipath NED24
    • Hotplug of a multipath NVMe device (FW 1060 and later)
    • NVMe over Fibre Channel (NVMf-FC)
  • Hybrid Network Virtualization
  • Guest secure boot with static keys
  • KVM in a PowerVM LPAR
  • Memory Consumption in GRUB
  • Managing your server with service and productivity tools
    • Installing service and productivity tools
      • Installing tools by using a server package manager
      • Installing specific tools by using the rpm command
    • Displaying package man pages
    • Middleware and infrastructure
      • DynamicRM
      • ServiceRM
    • Service and productivity tools
      • Hardware inventory
      • Inventory scout
      • Platform diagnostics (ppc64-diag)
      • servicelog
      • IBM Serviceable Event Provider for IBM PowerKVM Systems
        • What's new
        • Overview
        • Problem processing overview
        • Planning
          • Prerequisites
        • Installing IBM Serviceable Event Provider
        • Activating and configuring IBM Serviceable Event Provider
          • Starting and stopping IBM Serviceable Event Provider
          • Configuring Listeners
          • Sending test alerts
        • Sending notifications or alerts to Listeners
        • Managing
          • Management information base
          • Updating the Configuration file
          • Checking status
          • Displaying the activity log
          • Collecting inventory
            • collectHardwareInventory
            • collectSoftwareInventory
          • Viewing the error data
            • collectEED
            • sepffdc
          • Deactivating
          • Uninstalling IBM Serviceable Event Provider
        • Using the command-line interface
          • sepcli start
          • sepcli status
          • sepcli restart
          • sepcli stop
        • Troubleshooting IBM Serviceable Event Provider
        • Reference information
          • How to read syntax diagrams
      • Service aids
      • IBM Performance Management for Power Systems
      • Large page analysis
      • IBM Power RAID adapter utilities (iprutils)
      • IBM Electronic Service Agent
        • What's new
        • Overview
          • Accessing the IBM Electronic Support portal
          • Problem processing overview
        • Planning
          • Installing
          • Operating systems
          • Browsers
          • Security
            • Information privacy
            • Information transmission security
            • IP Addresses
            • User security
          • Topology
            • Using IBM Electronic Service Agent in an environment with other operating systems
        • Activating and configuring
          • Interactive activation
          • Command activation
          • Configuring your service connection
            • Creating the IBM Service and Support proxy
          • Testing connectivity to IBM
          • Specifying service contact information
        • Using
          • Using the graphical user interface
          • Participating in the NPS Survey
          • Viewing Dashboard
          • Displaying system information
          • Displaying problem information
          • Discovering systems
          • Sending a test problem
          • Running an operational test
          • Collecting and sending service information
          • Collecting extended error data
          • Displaying the activity log
          • Configuring operational settings
          • Exporting a configuration
          • Importing a configuration
          • Checking status
          • Accessing the IBM Electronic Support portal
        • Managing
          • Specifying service contact information
          • Specifying system location settings
          • Providing IBM IDs
          • Configuring your service connection
          • Creating the IBM Service and Support proxy
          • Configuring SNMP Settings
          • Configuring problem reporting
          • Configuring service information collection
          • Configuring operational tests
          • Configuring notifications settings
          • Configuring application settings
          • Setting the trace level
          • Configuring resource filters
          • Configuring error codes
          • Configuring UAK Management settings
          • Configuring system cleanup settings
          • Deactivating
            • Suspending and resuming
            • Stopping and starting
            • Disabling
          • Unconfiguring
          • Uninstalling
            • Uninstalling and saving configuration information
            • Uninstalling without saving configuration information
        • Using the command line interface
          • esacli
          • esacli activity
          • esacli backup
          • esacli connectionSettings
          • esacli contactSettings
          • esacli export
          • esacli generateToken
          • esacli help
          • esacli ibmId
          • esacli import
          • esacli interfaces
          • esacli lsentityIds
          • esacli locationSettings
          • esacli logSettings
          • esacli notificationSettings
          • esacli opNotificationSettings
          • esacli opTestSettings
          • esacli problem
          • esacli problemSettings
          • esacli resourceFilters
          • esacli restauth
          • esacli restore
          • esacli resume
          • esacli service
          • esacli serviceSettings
          • esacli solutionInformation
          • esacli srcFilters
          • esacli start
          • esacli status
          • esacli stop
          • esacli supportProxySettings
          • esacli suspend
          • esacli test
          • esacli token
          • esacli updateCache
          • install_update_ipmitool
          • install_update_java
        • Appendix - Legacy Server Connections
        • Troubleshooting
        • Reference information
          • How to read syntax diagrams
      • Secure data deletion for devices
        • Secure data deletion for drives attached with Broadcom (LSI) MegaRAID 9361-8i SAS3 Controller
        • Secure data deletion for NVMe drive
          • Deleting stray NVMe namespaces of an NVMe drive
        • Secure data deletion for SATA drive
        • Secure data deletion for SAS drives
    • Diagnosing RTAS events
    • Code license and disclaimer information
  • Related information