Re: Do IBM or BPs sell pre-partitioned new systems?

Take into account that alternatives to the physical HMC DO exist and your
BP should know about them. You have the Virtual HMC which you can install
into most any VM-Host and you can also use the integrated virtualization
manager (a VIOS partition with a bolted-on webserver that does most of the
stuff you use the HMC for)...


On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 2:50 PM, Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Okay. Thanks for your response.

On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 11:36 AM, Jim Oberholtzer <
midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Or start the system after a power down, or apply FSP code, or power the
system off for parts replacement, live parts replacement, and I don't

care

to keep going but I could. Folks running these systems never have to
change the CPU percent per partition or memory allocations do they? Yea
they
do. All the time.

Running a partitioned POWER box without an HMC is just not an informed
decision. Granted VPM will work, but again, yuck, and the number of

CEs

that are out there that have a clue how to swap a part out with VPM is
shockingly low.


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Agile Technology Architects

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On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 11:06 AM, Jim Oberholtzer <
midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Then how do you manage the system?

By "manage the system", are you asking about changing partition
configurations? If so, then I'd ask why change them? Why not live with

how

they might be configured originally?

Say you want an IBM i partition and a Linux partition, and you don't
anticipate changing that.


Just because the partitions are called for on the configuration does

not

create them, nor build them. Even the preload configuration option

is

totally useless in most cases.

You might want to think that all the way through before you try it.

That is my reason for posing the question. If I understand correctly,

the

answer is no. It appears that neither IBM, nor BPs will pre-configure
multiple partitions on new orders.
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