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IBM Power Systems E870 and E880 Technical Overview and Introduction
twinax ports (#EN0K, #EN0L, #EL3C), SR optical ports (#EN0H, #EN0J, #EL38), and LR
optical ports (#EN0N, #EN0M).Virtual I/O slot limit increase. With VIOS version 2.2.3.4, or
later, the maximum number of virtual I/O slots that are supported on the AIX, IBM i, and
Linux partition is increased up to 32 K.
VIOS support
– Supports IBM Power E870 and Power E880
– Supports 8 GB quad port PCIe generation 2 Fibre Channels adapter
There is support for Live Partition Mobility performance enhancements to better use the
10 Gb Ethernet Adapters that are used within the mobility process, and PowerVM server
evacuation function.
Shared Ethernet Adapter by default uses the largesend attribute.
The VIOS update packages can be downloaded from the IBM Fix Central website:
http://www-933.ibm.com/support/fixcentral
3.9 Dynamic Partition Remote Restart
Partition Remote Restart is a function designed to enhance availability of a partition on
another server when its original host server fails. This is a High Availability function of
PowerVM Enterprise Edition.
Starting from IBM Power Systems HMC V8.8.1.0 the requirement of enabling Remote Restart
of a LPAR only at creation time has been removed. Dynamic Partition Remote Restart allows
for the dynamic toggle of Remote Restart capability when an LPAR is deactivated.
