Re: HMC x86 support

From what I have seen in other places, yes. This is going to be a big problem I think for smaller shops. The POWER based HMC is a great idea and I like it, HOWEVER you cannot use it to manage the server it runs on. As a consequence you need a minimum of TWO Power Systems. And should they both be down at once you are officially out of business at that point. As a consequence you pretty much must abandon virtual HMC and go to a POWER Based 7063 HMC. In the small shops that is A LOT of cost to add to support virtualization.

I am working on getting better clarification on this because I do not like it.

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On 4/24/2018 11:21 AM, Steve Pavlichek wrote:

IBM has announced the end of software upgrades for x86 based HMC’s (see below). Does anyone know if this includes the virtual HMC running on VMware? I suspect that they are included since they run the same code base as the hardware appliances but a case could be made since they call out the 7042 hardware models.



Major update support for x86-based (7042) HMC hardware appliances will end in 2018. From 2019, HMC updates will only support Power®-based (7063) HMC appliances. However, software fix support for existing in-support releases for the x86-based HMC appliance will remain unchanged. See the IBM POWER® code matrix website for the lifecycle of releases for the hardware appliance.