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: powervm
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…
AIX or VIOS HBA link failure fix
Sometimes in AIX / VIOS you will have one (or more) Fibre Ports that will complain about a Link Failure. AIX/VIOS may record these as an error: 29FA8C20 or 7BFEEA1F. These errors can appear in the case of a configured fibre port adapter OR in the case of an unconfigured one. Typically if it is…