Re: IBM Moves HMC Management To Native Power Server, LPARs

When Mr. Morgan gets vexed at something he really doesn't hold back does
he?

Yes, when the HMC first came out I felt it was extremely unreliable and
had to reboot it multiple times per day. But that was a LONG time ago.
Now, in general, I'm pretty happy with it. It's still way cheaper than
the list price of any 5250 terminal from 35 years ago.

I think we've already discussed the options available for your HMC
configuration on this list and his post is kind of old news.

And, as we've said, running HMC as a virtual lpar on your Power 8 almost
requires redundant Power 8's because of the chicken or the egg issue.

And I think more and more shops running multiple Power 8's have some sort
of device that falls into this category:
<snip>
... virtual appliance format that ran atop either Red Hat's KVM hypervisor
or VMware's ESXi hypervisor and that could be deployed on any X86 server
that customers chose. The server had to have an X86 processor that support
Intel VT-x or AMD-V hardware virtualization extensions and required at
least four cores, 8 GB of memory, and 160 GB of disk capacity to run. ...
</snip>

Rob Berendt