RE: Any thoughts on the PowerVM and lx86 announcement?

Was that VP Ross Mauri?

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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Don
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 2:32 PM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: Any thoughts on the PowerVM and lx86 announcement?

What was interesting about today's announcement call was that it was
CLEARLY
p-series and AIX and Blade centric with iSeries as an "also ran"... The
guy
that ran it (VP of Power) is from pSeries and really treated it as more
p-series than I...REALLY A SHAME that they didn't take the opportunity
to
push iSeries(or whatever Trevor wants to call it :) more than they did
in
this call...



-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Richter
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 2:26 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Any thoughts on the PowerVM and lx86 announcement?

On Jan 29, 2008 1:37 PM, Don <dr2@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Folks..



Any thoughts on the powerVM and lx86 stuff?



I5/os finally announced on BladeCenter S chassis.

hooray, no need to purchase an HMC!
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/i/os/i5os/v6r1/blades/pdf/i5os_on_blade_re
adme
.pdf

"...VIOS is always the first LPAR installed on a partitioned POWER
blade.
Once VIOS is installed, other LPARs can be created using the Integrated
Virtualization Manager (IVM). IVM is part of VIOS and provides a browser
interface to the blade for managing LPARs and I/O virtualization. The
POWER
blade does not support a Hardware Management Console (HMC). ..."