Re: VM on 8202-E4D

The only real problem is when you are working with a small shop, so small
that they don't even have any VMWare/Xen/KVM host, that's when you start
scratching your head and wondering where in the nine hells you can place
that VM (hint, it ended up in a notebook. Only until the next purchasing
cycle where they will finally go to a VM host)...

Roberto

On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 2:24 PM, DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The Virtual HMC is merely a software version of the HMC that installs into
VMWare or KVM. So save a lot by acquiring only software no hardware and of
course you save the space/power/cooling of a physical HMC.

As a side benefit these things apply fixes Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay faster than
physical HMCs as they don't have to wait for UEFI load at every reboot!!!

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

www.Frankeni.com
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On 4/18/2017 12:31 PM, tim wrote:

We are willing to have existing partition as host. Sharing resources
will be fine.

Can you elaborate on the "virtual HMC" part? I think that would work.


On 4/18/2017 11:36 AM, DrFranken wrote:

If you are willing for your existing partition to be the host, share
its disk space, a tape drive (NOT library) and dvd as well as bridge a
network adapter they you don't need an HMC.

I am not sure what enhancements they are referring to.

That said I am a strong supporter of having an HMC for many reasons.
Remember the virtual HMC appliance can be had for significantly less
cash than a physical unit and it would likely be perfect for your
environment.

Either way you still use Power VM and it must be licensed on your server.

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

www.Frankeni.com
www.iDevCloud.com - Personal Development IBM i timeshare service.
www.iInTheCloud.com - Commercial IBM i Cloud Hosting.

On 4/18/2017 11:18 AM, tim wrote:

We are looking to create a virtual environment for testing purposes. We
are on V7.1 and want to create a duplicate environment for testing. We
will only need to use IBM OS, not Linux or AIX, etc.

Our VAR said, "all the improvements have been made in PowerVM/HMC and
not in PVM" , thus suggesting we need the HMC since all software
enhancements have been made on the HMC side only. I've did some
searches on it and for what we want, it looks like i don't need an HMC.

Can anyone clarify this?

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