Re: More resources for my P9

[Roberto José Etcheverry Romero <yggdrasil.raiker@xxxxxxxxx>]

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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