RE: HMC 8.8.x withdrawal of support is April 30, 2020

To be up front, I think a separate HMC is a reasonable request.
But if one wants to run two small Power systems, in separate DC's, it can be a little costly to have separate HMC's in both DC's. Using both of the Power systems to redundantly provide HMC support to themselves and each other is an alternative.

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From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Holger Scherer
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 11:55 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: HMC 8.8.x withdrawal of support is April 30, 2020

This is only of some (!) use if you have multiple power boxes with multiple HMC LPARs and a lot of networking connections.
And in real world data center use even HMC/Customer systems are separated at all...

For all other users (as most of us) a physical box (or better: two) running the HMC software using two separate HMC networks (on two switch infrastructures) is the better option.

-h

Am 27.03.2019 um 16:10 schrieb DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:

It's really what makes an HMC as a partition on the system of little to no interest to me.

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