RE: Timeline for EOS HMC x86

[Steve Pavlichek <spavlichek@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

vHMC running on x86 will continue to be supported. Only the HMC running on x86 hardware as an appliance will be withdrawn.  IBM is keeping support for the vHMC on x86 as they do not have to do any testing of hardware.

From: Roberto José Etcheverry Romero<mailto:yggdrasil.raiker@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, July 4, 2019 9:45 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion<mailto:midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Timeline for EOS HMC x86

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: