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Re:IBM AIX for IA64 (Itanium) a.k.a. Project Monterey Runs A... by classichasclass on Saturday September 24, 2022 @02:57PM (#32965565)
Yeah, that's what started turning me off modern systems. None of my earlier hardware required it, but my POWER6 did. You can do some things in ASMI but if you want to reconfigure an LPAR or (horrors) add one, then you're digging out the HMC. It was just an off the shelf IBM x86 system running Linux, so I should image it and see if I can make a VM out of it instead of lugging it out of storage now and then.

The real grift was Capacity on Demand, which requires access keys to unlock hardware only IBM provides. That was a lot of "fun" when the system planar died and the new one didn't give me all my processors back. It took nearly a week to iron it out with IBM directly; even the VAR couldn't fix it.

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Re:IBM AIX for IA64 (Itanium) a.k.a. Project Monterey Runs A... by thequux on Saturday September 24, 2022 @06:39PM (#32967191)
I run my HMC in a VM running in libvirtd. IIRC, IBM provided the image as a VMware appliance, but it was quite simple to convert to something open source (at the cost of being an unsupported configuration, but it's not as if I could afford an IBM sorry contact to start with), and the result works great with my single POWER7 machine (8233-E8B)
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