Recently work required the procurement of a new power 10 server, so that an aging power 8 server could be taken out of the mix and decommissioned. This required researching what was required for CPU, memory, types of networking adapters and fibre adapters. Once that was determined, the process was started to order in a…
Category: HMC
Migrating HMC to a vHMC
When migrating from a physical Hardware Management Console (HMC) to a virtual Hardware Management Console (vHMC) there are a bunch of steps that should be taken. At the very least one will want to do “save update data” as well as to “backup critical console data”. These can be used in the case of failure….
Setup new Power950 Server
Recently a new power9 950 was purchased, so it has to be brought into the environment and setup. The specific 950 in question (9040-MR9) is a bit longer than previous versions. This means that things can get quite tight in the back of the server rack, possibly, interfering with the proper closing of the rear…