IBM E850C, Technical Overview And Introduction

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IBM Power System E850C: Technical Overview and Introduction
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򐂰 Displaying a virtual operator panel of contents for each partition
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Detecting, reporting, and storing changes in hardware conditions
򐂰 Powering managed systems on and off
򐂰 Acting as a service focal point for service representatives to determine an appropriate
service strategy
The HMC could either be a hardware or a virtual appliance. Figure 1-7 shows the available
configurations for a Power Systems HMCs infrastructure.
Multiple Power Systems servers can be managed by a single HMC. Each server can be
connected to multiple HMC consoles to build extra resiliency into the management platform.
Figure 1-7 HMC configurations
Several hardware appliance HMC models are supported to manage POWER8 based
systems. The 7042-CR9 is available for ordering at the time of writing, but you can also use
one of the withdrawn models listed in Table 1-6.
Table 1-6 HMC models that support POWER8 processor technology-based servers
Existing HMC models 7042 can be upgraded to Licensed Machine Code Version 8 to support
environments that might include IBM POWER6®, IBM ™, IBM POWER7®, IBM
™ and POWER8 processor-based servers.
Note: Virtualization on the IBM Power E850C is also supported by the Integrated
Virtualization Manager (IVM).
Type-model Availability Description
7042-C08 Withdrawn IBM 7042 Model C08 Deskside Hardware Management Console
7042-CR5 Withdrawn IBM 7042 Model CR5 Rack-Mounted Hardware Management Console
7042-CR6 Withdrawn IBM 7042 Model CR6 Rack mounted Hardware Management Console
7042-CR7 Withdrawn IBM 7042 Model CR7 Rack mounted Hardware Management Console
7042-CR8 Withdrawn IBM 7042 Model CR8 Rack mounted Hardware Management Console
7042-CR9 Available IBM 7042 Model CR9 Rack mounted Hardware Management Console
One or two
hardware appliance HMC
One virtual appliance HMC
and
one hardware appliance HMC
One or two virtual
appliance HMC