RE: vHMC

Diego,

Depending on how many machines you're managing, you can also opt for one of the Pentium/Atom-based models. These work on 12V and are small enough to fit in the space in an E4D where the half height PCIe expansion fits. If you then remove the bracket to pass the ethernet cable through and into the HMC port, and a USB->Serial adapter for the HMC serial port, you'll end up having a nice self-contained solution. Depending on your level of courage, the optical drive is an easily accessible source of 12V with enough power budget to power one of those NUCs.

/y

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From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Diego Kesselman
Sent: 13 August 2019 13:15
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Subject: Re: vHMC

Pete,

We use an Intel NUC with CoreI5 (Dual Core) , 8GB and SSD, and it's fast.
It's fast even if with add 4GB with 2vCPUs with 50% usage.

The key is SSD.


Diego Kesselman

El lun., 12 de agosto de 2019 19:33, Pete Helgren <pete@xxxxxxxxxx>
escribió:

Hmmm...I know I didn't pay for a virtual HMC but I have 4 products
that seem to be vHMC related (and I have installed the vHMC for x86).
5765-HMA, 5765-HMB, 5765-HMV, and 5765-HMW are all listed and
available in ESS. Maybe they are part of the developer discount
program but I would think they would be listed on my order with a
$0.00 cost (as other items are) if they were part of the DD program...

vHMC is pretty cool. A little slow (16GB RAM on the VM) and I don't
really have anything to compare it to but I am glad to have it.

Pete Helgren
www.petesworkshop.com
GIAC Secure Software Programmer-Java
Twitter - Sys_i_Geek IBM_i_Geek

On 8/12/2019 7:40 AM, Rob Berendt wrote:

This is a good document regarding the vHMC:
https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas8N1020969

Some of the more important (to me anyway) Q&A stuff:

Q: Are existing HMC customers entitled to vHMC?
A: No. vHMC is a separate offering and must be purchased separately.

There is no conversion and no upgrade offering.

Q: Can x86 based vHMC licenses (5765-HMV) be converted to POWER vHMC

(5765-HMA )?

A: No. They are two different offerings.
R: Apparently you don't want to "try" one and then go to the other.

Q: What restrictions are unique to vHMC on POWER?
A:
- POWER vHMC cannot manage the server it is is hosted on.
This implies the hosting POWER server must be managed by Novalink or

another HMC instance. IVM managed servers are not supported.

- The HMC Virtual Appliance for PowerVM does not provide graphics

adapter support for adapters assigned to the partition. "Local console"
access is limited to command line only.

...

How to download, etc is covered at that link.

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