Re: Load Source Placement - Best Practices.

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sue Baker might have some input here but I've never seen any such 
document. It might be 'Best IPL time' to do this but with the POWER8 
servers there would be no gain putting the load source in the 5887, SSD 
or not.

What I will say is IPLs from SSD off pretty much ANY RAID card 
especially when mirrored are incredibly fast. I've seen 2 minutes or less.

        - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

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On 3/16/2015 1:46 PM, Graap, Kenneth wrote:

> I'm looking for some IBM document or statement that indicates it is a considered "Best Practice" to locate the load source on SSD in a 5877 Expansion Unit (or equivalent) as opposed to having it reside in the CEC attached to the MFIOP.
>
> Has anyone seen any references to this, especially on the newer Power8 servers?
>
> Kenneth
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