Re: Timeline for EOS HMC x86 -- MIDRANGE-L

Thus far they have not given a date or version at which there will be no x86 vHMC. They have suggested one might be 'out there' a bit but not yet.

I am a big fan of the vHMC but the vHMC for POWER makes no sense if you can't bring it up like vCenter in VMWare. There you can still bring up the hardware and start a VM from each host. If we had that capability in ASMI then all my vHMCs would be on POWER!

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On 7/4/2019 9:44 AM, Roberto José Etcheverry Romero wrote:

I'm still wrapping my head around this. The vHMC was a blessing for mid to
big customers that already had a vm server farm. But now we are back to
"buy my hardware or else". It's not exactly easy to have a secondary Power
server available to run the vHMC for POWER and even then, I'm betting it
only runs on p8+ machines (due to endian-ness) so no chance of giving a p7
machine another life. And the final point. Unless using the physicial POWER
HMC, you get into the chicken and egg situation where you have to very
carefully configure the LPARs to autostart and not be dependant on
anything, otherwise a full blackout will mean you lose your vHMC...
IF the ASMI/FSP had a barebones LPAR management interface, like ESXi's
interface (You might be using vCenter to manage your server farm, but you
can still connect to each host and start a VM), I would go with vHMC for
POWER. As it is, I don't see the point.

On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 6:33 AM Jack Kingsley <iseriesflorida@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Rob, this article outlines a version that will not run on x86.

http://ibmsystemsmag.com/power/businessstrategy/power9/power9-brings-changes-hmc/

https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas8N1021840

https://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/flrt/sas?page=mtm-supported-hmc

On Mon, Jul 1, 2019 at 7:40 AM Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

What's the timeline for the End of Support for the x86 based HMC's?
One of my first concerns is when will there be the first firmware release
for Power 8, 9 (or above) which requires a level of HMC code higher than
that which will run on x86 based HMC's?

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