Re: IBM delivers the IBM Power Systems Hardware Management Console Virtual Appliance 10.1

["Larry \"DrFranken\" Bolhuis" <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

IMHO The number of these appliances deployed isn't large enough to 
warrant testing on a large number of potential VM Hosts. From my 
perspective I'd prefer that IBM spend time fixing broken things or 
enhancing the HMC rather than testing on a long list of VM Hosts.

Additionally consider that if you are moving to POWER10 or have other 
reasons to require HMC version 10 then you likely have newer VM hosts 
available. Further, if you do not have newer ones available, consider 
that a move to POWER10 will likely be a server that will be supported 
for 5 or even more years, meaning that those 'near end of life' hosts 
will reach end of life before your need for the HMC version 10.

In other words if you're upgrading your Power System keep your VM hosts 
current as well.

	- DrF

On 9/8/2021 11:16 AM, Jacob Banda wrote:
> Just wanted to hear others opinions on the OS support decisions for vHMC on
> x86 (5765-VHX). I know that RHEL7 / SUSE 12 / Ubuntu 16.04 are still in
> support, albeit on the tail end of their lifecycles. With this in mind, I
> was a little sad to see that OS support is limited once again to these OS
> versions for the new vHMC 10.1 appliance.
>
> Taken from the Software Announcement:
>
> Software requirements
> 5765-VHX (x86 based)
> KVM 2.5.0 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS or Red HatR Enterprise LinuxR 7
> Xen on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 or Ubuntu 16.04
> VMwareR ESXi 6.0, or later
>
> ------------
> Jacob
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> date: Wed, 8 Sep 2021 13:05:23 +0000
> from: Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx>
> subject: IBM delivers the IBM Power Systems Hardware Management
> 	Console Virtual Appliance 10.1
>
> IBM delivers the IBM Power Systems Hardware Management Console Virtual
> Appliance 10.1
> https://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/7/897/E
> NUS221-217/index.html
>
>
> Rob Berendt
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