Re: HMC 7310-CR3

Rob,

Thank you for your insight and additional links.

Out of curiosity, with current HMC code and Firmware on
Power5/Power5+/Power6, what is theoretical "oldest" OS/400 release that
could be installed. What dictates or controls that ? I assume V5R4 and
later would install under the HMC environment, but "could" you go back
preV5R4 to create a
LPAR running non-supported OS/400 test bed ?




On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 10:46 AM, <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Yes, a CR3 can handle Power 7. As per:
http://www-933.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/firmware/readme?fixid=MH01343
We're running a couple of CR2's which will not.
"HMC V7R760 was the last release supported on models 7310-C04 and
7310-CR2." Which leads me to believe that 7.7.7 should work on your CR3.
Check

https://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/sas/f/power5cm/supportedcode.html
and
DSPFMWSTS
to ensure that you're ready to rock.

As soon as you get to HMC change your system to upgrade firmware from that
and NOT *OPSYS! Otherwise there is a potential to upgrade your firmware
past that which your HMC will support.

I will say that we went from HMC V5 to V7 after I saw the capabilities of
V7. Awesome compared to earlier releases. We had to step upgrade
hmc-firmware-hmc-firmware-hmc-... to get there. We were really behind.
(see previous paragraph)

STW on Infocenter and changing console.
One link (that started acting up while I was using it)

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/systems/scope/hw/index.jsp?topic=/iphca/chgconsoles.htm

http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v7r1m0/topic/rzahc/rzahcswsdsppor2t.htm


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From: Joe Wood <wood3875@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Date: 05/31/2013 11:14 AM
Subject: HMC 7310-CR3
Sent by: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx



HMC Users/Experts,

We are strongly leaning towards implementing a HMC 7310-CR3 running V7.7
(latest code) as it supports Power5, Power6, and Power7.

What are the gotcha's, best practices, and lessons learned that you can
share as we travel this path. I could be highly influenced as we have no
commitments in place. It must support existing Power5/6 (V5R4 & V7R1).
The existing machines are LAN console'd and current on Firmware Status
set
to *OPSYS. All that I've read tells me this model is also Power7 capable,
so we have future growth options.

Thanks for sharing.


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