Re: More resources for my P9

Even though IBM will say that the memory for the scale out p9s is "industry
standard DDR4", I'm pretty sure that unless it has the correct VPD the
system will reject it.
I haven't been able to play with a p9 in that manner yet. But as for trying
to go the cheapest route I would use iSCSI mounted disks thru a VIOS. VIOS
3.1 introduced iscsi client capabilities IIRC.

Best of luck.

On Sat, 8 Jun 2019, 16:45 Pete Helgren, <pete@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The new Power 9 box I recently installed is up and running and is pretty
darn fast for my needs as a developer. 16GB RAM and a mirrored pair of
SAS drives (283GB). I am pretty happy with the IBM i side of things but
I'd like to put the three other processors to work. I got the virtual
HMC going OK so I can create the partitions. Now I just need some more
resources.

I am a developer so I am cheap...so the question is: Is there a
hardware compatibility matrix listed somewhere? I will most likely add
some memory and disk so what I am looking for is the lowest compatible
resource that I can allocate to a Linux partition that will work in a
P9. Also, I don't want the resources to affect the IBM i partition,
which I would guess is possible using the HMC. I am more familiar
with virtualization using VIOS on a BC-S so maybe the whole approach is
different when all the resources are in the same CEC.

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