RE: HMC - FSP Upgrade

I have a few customers who have decided to get an HMC on a non-lpared machine, and they love it. Total remote connectivity and manageability.

Pete

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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lukas Beeler
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 12:15 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: HMC - FSP Upgrade

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 17:53, Chris Bipes <chris.bipes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In my environment it makes sense as I have one partition running i5/OS
and it is set to auto start when the machine starts. If the HMC is
down, I can use the twinax console for DST or restricted state saves.

Why would you want to do that? Twinax is finally dead with Power 7
hardware. So that's good. With Power 6 it was mostly-dead, since it
required an expansion unit.

Hopefully someday the HMC will be integrated into the FSP instead of a
separate box. Such as our Dell and Compaq servers with their DRAC and
ILO cards. (Yes the iSeries is much more complex but it is just
software and my cell phone can probably run the HMC software...;-)

The whole point of the HMC is that it's independent from the systems it manages.

But yes, a sensible default console for non-LPARed systems would make
sense. The only option right now is LAN attached Operations Console,
which isn't very good. The ThinConsole idea was very nice, but it died
when HP bought Neoware.