RE: Top 10 reasons why the HMC is a terrible product!

Here's my opinion - HMC is much more intuitive, friendly, and appealing
to use for LPARing a system and managing multiple boxes than green
screen LPAR was or could ever be.  

I'll admit that in its early iterations it may not have been the best,
and right now there's still things which look-and-feel and speed-wise
don't quite meet the standards we'd like, but overall it's a very nice
system and I enjoy managing i5 machines with it.

Also - I've got a feeling it's around to stay (moreso than twinax, whose
demise has been announced), so I say we help IBM in suggesting
enhancements and reporting these bugs rather than naysaying the HMC.

My .02

Justin C. Haase - iSeries System Administrator
IBM Certified Systems Expert - eServer i5
Kingland Systems Corporation
email - justin.haase@xxxxxxxxxxxx


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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Patricia Garrity
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 1:07 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Top 10 reasons why the HMC is a terrible product!

What level of software are you running on the HMC?
We have not had to re-boot the HMC since it has been running V4.4.  The
last time it did require an unplanned re-boot was back at V4.3.2 - and
that is an HMC controlling 4 systems, total of 19 partitions.

I don't know about general consensus, but I know we don't tolerate our
p5's locking up - if they did, we would replace them with something that
doesn't lock up. The unplanned downtime on both our p and i systems are
about the same - which is minimal.

Regards

Pat

--- rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I've experienced more lockup's and reboots on my HMC than I ever do on

> my Windows units.  It's getting better.  Although for something that's

> been out for awhile controlling p5's first, why should it have been 
> lousy in the first place?  General consensus is that p5 people are 
> used to machines locking up, etc and are much more tolerable of stuff 
> that i5 people would have you shot on site for.
> 
> Rob Berendt
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