Tuesday, April 15, 2014

New HMC V7R7 8.0 Features.

Requirements for 7.7.8 - minimum CR3, C05.
Not Supported - CR2, C03, C04
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7.7.8 supports managing maximum of 48 servers with a maximum of 1024 partitions across the managed servers.

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Few of new Features -

1. Support for CoD Power Enterprise Pools. A Power enterprise pool is a group of servers that can share Mobile Capacity on Demand processor resources and memory resources.




2. Added support for a new two dump type; Performance Dumps.
Enhanced Dynamic Platform Optimization.

3.Added support for group based LDAP authentication. LDAP users and HMCs can be assigned to hmcgroup(s) to further control log in. Once being assigned to a certain group(s), LDAP users are permitted to log in HMC(s) of the same group(s). Conversely, if a HMC is assigned to a certain group(s), it would allow users of the same group to log in.

4. DVD_RAM is no longer supported for backup and restore of console data.

5. Query on  the managed servers for deconfigured resources and open new serviceable events as a reminder that a previous problem has not been repaired. During repair operations, the HMC will check for previously hardware issues and, if found, remind the operator of pending repair actions.

6. Added support to disable a virtual ethernet adapter. System administrators are able to disable/enable the individual Virtual Ethernet Adapter (VEA) from the management console. With this ability a particular partition can be cut off from the network when disabled and can be enabled to connect it back to the network when using virtual ethernet bridged via SEA in VIOS. This can be done by command line, not by GUI.

7. Support single command to migrate all the AIX, Linux and IBM i partitions from one server to another server.

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