Re: Can one have SANs on a P05 system?

[a4g atl <a4ginatl2@xxxxxxxxx>]

Which SAN devices work on the P05 systems?
Can any work on it?
Are the SR-IOV cards all that is needed to work with the SAN?
Does the system need a local drive?

Thanks, Darryl.

On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 1:13 PM Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis <
midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Don't know about on P8 but on P7 I know that IBM cuts your processor
> speed in half when you violate the upper memory limit.
>
> This also happened with the original 'Frankie' when we pushed that 170
> over 1GB of ram which was the supported limit for the machine.
>
>         - DrF
>
> On 11/12/2021 12:17 PM, Holger Scherer wrote:
> > didn’t test on P9 yet, but P8 P05 boxes work with at least 256GB RAM but
> > it is not supported…
> > -h
> >
> >
> > ------ Originalnachricht ------
> > Von: "Larry \"DrFranken\" Bolhuis" <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > An: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion"
> > <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Roberto José Etcheverry Romero"
> > <yggdrasil.raiker@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Gesendet: 12.11.2021 17:44:14
> > Betreff: Re: Can one have SANs on a P05 system?
> >
> > > In my experience this is spot on. You can do a few small LPARs but
> > > that's about it on the P05 machines before the 64GB limit rears it's
> > > head.
> > >     - L
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