If you are not into the whole "cones of silence" concept where one feels a need to have only a hardwire between the Power system management port and the HMC you could have each systems HMC lpar cross manage the other Power system. And, unless they all go down at once you should be covered.
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From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Jim Oberholtzer
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Effectively eliminating ANY Intel based HMC.
I have one customer with multiple machines looking at keeping one hardware based HMC that is only used when the managed system needs to restart, (very rare nowadays) and is instead putting up a partition with the HMC in it on each system to manage that system. The hardware HMC acts as a back up to the HMC partition.
Interesting concept, and I'm not sure I buy it, but it will be fun to implement.
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Subject: HMC 8.8.x withdrawal of support is April 30, 2020
Effective on the dates shown, IBM will withdraw support for the following offerings from AAS:
Program number VRM Service discontinued Program name
5765-HMV 8.8.x April 30, 2020
Hardware Management Console (HMC) virtual appliance
5765-HMA 8.8.x April 30, 2020
IBM Power(r) Systems Hardware Management Console (HMC) virtual appliance for POWER(r)-based systems
https://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/2/89
7/ENUSC19-012/index.html&request_locale=en#919-013
Rob Berendt
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