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Category: HMC

Remove those pesky remote consoles

Posted on October 3, 2019 by a blogger

Often when supporting AIX systems, it is quite common to use a remote console. Using a Hardware Management Console (HMC) it’s quite common to use the command “vtmenu”, then open a remote console session to a specific Logical Partition (LPAR). This is useful for a number of things. One such usage is when you create…

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Light up Dark Ram or Dark CPU

Posted on May 14, 2012 by a blogger

In order to have Dark RAM/CPU’s lit up, you have to gather some details on them, and send off to the IBM partner (sales) to have them activated. In the case of a “temporary” assignment, you can get it lit up for 30 days (no charge). Otherwise, it would have to be charged and what…

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Menu
  • about
  • blog
  • IBM Power Hardware
  • HMC
    • Learning the HMC
    • HMC and System Setup
    • Hardware Management Basics
    • HMC Advanced Management
  • VIOS
    • PowerVM (VIOS)
    • VIOs Basics
  • Logical Partitions (LPARs)
  • NIM
    • Network Install Manager (NIM)
  • Firmware