Re: Guest Partitions

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rob is correct. The 'Twinax' issue is the lack of IOP support in ANY 
slot on a POWER7 server. Since twinax requires an IOP you can't use it 
in POWER7. You also cannot put a twinax card in any POWER6 System unit, 
you must add an HSL I/O loop and tower so that you can install an IOP 
and thus support Twinax. That's a lot of money to spend to support old 
devices unless you already have all that hardware.

Correct also that HMC Software will only load on an IBM machine with 
appropriate MT and SN.

 - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

P.S. 3 Drive RAID Sets suck.

On 3/18/2011 2:43 PM, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I do not think it is 7.1 that makes twinax go away.  It is Power 7.  So,
> if you bought a Power 6 and loaded 7.1 on it you might be ok.  Then again
> it's your decision if you want to limit your hardware options just to
> support twinax.
>
> You cannot just load HMC software on another device.  You have to use the
> dedicated device.  It's a heavily customized version of Linux.  I am sure
> that it also has some burned in bios or some such thing.