Re: Power 8 vHMC versus HMC Stand-alone Pros and Cons

I would not do it just to save a few pennies, the potential to have HUGE

issues in your production environment is very high.

I can understand that, and I'd take that info and use it to log some RFE's
to create a more stable vHMC scenario rather than let it stay as-is. And
maybe somebody is already doing that. If so, please post the RFE links so
we can all vote them up.

Aaron Bartell
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On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 9:50 AM, Monty G. James <monty.james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Let me say I am not disagreeing with anything that has been said as it
relates to letting someone walk into your shop and attaching a vHMC.

The following is purely based upon my own field experience in my former
life, I put forth the effort to load multiple versions of HMC code on my
laptop.

A laptop as your HMC is very workable, consider IBMs own example with the
DS8K:

IBM ThinkPad with a couple of USB to Ethernet adapters, remember this is a
dedicated laptop secured to the DS.

As for using VirtualBox on generic PC hardware, to stay legal you must
license the vHMC code and IBM does not support the underling hardware or
virtual environment just the HMC code itself.

I would not do it just to save a few pennies, the potential to have HUGE
issues in your production environment is very high.