Re: 7.2 Was: IBM i 7.1 Technology Refresh 7 available Nov. 15-CLARIFICATION on POWER5

Absolutely. In fact folks at IBM have told me that. So for example you have a POWER6 machine with HSL loops and you wish to run 7.2 on it, you simply guest the partition and virtualize everything.


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On 10/16/2013 10:39 AM, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

<snip>
[IBM i 7.1 partitions>->(BECOMES)->: Partitions with the release
after IBM i 7.1 cannot own any HSL/RIO or IOP hardware, but they can be
virtual clients. (This support statement was already true for POWER7 and
later. This planning statement specifically applies to POWER6
technology-based systems running (ADDED)->[the release after] IBM i 7.1.)
</snip>

Would guesting 7.2, either
- on a host 7.1 partition
- or on VIOS
insulate you from the above statement? Granted all affected I/O (disk,
tape controllers, etc) would have to either be on supported hardware or be
virtualized also.


Rob Berendt