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Configuration of a Remote Restart Capable partition
How can we move a partition to another machine if the machine or the data-center on which the partition is hosted is totally unavailable ? This question is often asked by managers and technical people....
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Automating systems deployment & other new features : HMC8, IBM Provisioning...
I am involved in a project where we are going to deploy dozen of Power Systems (still Power7 for the moment, and Power8 in a near future). All the systems will be the same : same models with the same...
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Using Chef and cloud-init with PowerVC 1.2.2.2 | What’s new in version 1.2.2.2
I’ve been busy; very busy and I apologize for that … almost two months since the last update on the blog, but I’m still alive and I love AIX more than ever ;-). There is no blog post about it but I’ve...
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Using the Simplified Remote Restart capability on Power8 Scale Out Servers
A few weeks ago I had to work on simplified remote restart. I’m not lucky enough yet -because of some political decisions in my company- to have access to any E880 or E870. We just have a few scale-out...
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Tips and tricks for PowerVC 1.2.3 (PVID, ghostdev, clouddev, rest API,...
Writing a Redbook was one of my main goal. After working days and nights for more than 6 years on PowerSystems IBM gave me the opportunity to write a Redbook. I was looking on the Redbook residencies...
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Updating AIX TL and SP using Chef
Creating something to automate the update of a service pack or a technology level has always been a dream that never come true. You can trust me almost every customers that I know tried to make that...
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IBM Technical University for PowerSystems 2015 – Cannes (both sessions files...
I’m traveling the world since my first IBM Technical University for PowerSystems in Dublin (4 years ago as far as I remember). I had the chance to be in Budapest last year and in Cannes this year (a...
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A first look at SRIOV vNIC adapters
I have the chance to participate in the current Early Shipment Program (ESP) for Power Systems, especially the software part. One of my tasks is to test a new feature called SRIOV vNIC. For those who...
View ArticleWhat’s new in VIOS 2.2.4.10 and PowerVM : Part 1 Virtual I/O Server Rules
I will post a series of mini blog posts about new features of PowerVM and Virtual I/O Server that are release this month. By this I mean Hardware Management Console 840 + Power firmware 840 + Virtual...
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NovaLink ‘HMC Co-Management’ and PowerVC 1.3.0.1Dynamic Resource Optimizer
Everybody now knows that I’m using PowerVC a lot in my current company. My environment is growing bigger and bigger and we are now managing more than 600 virtual machines with PowerVC (the goal is to...
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What’s new in VIOS 2.2.4.10 and PowerVM : Part 2 Shared Processor Pool weighting
First of all before beginning this blog post I owe you an explanation about these two months without new posts. These two months were very busy. On the personal side I was forced to move from my...
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Continuous integration for your Chef AIX cookbooks (using PowerVC, Jenkins,...
My Journey to integrate Chef on AIX is still going on and I’m working more than ever on these topics. I know that using such tools is not something widely adopted by AIX customers. But what I also know...
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Enhance your AIX packages management with yum and nim over http
As AIX is getting older and older our old favorite OS is still trying to struggle versus the mighty Linux and the fantastic Solaris (no sarcasm in that sentence I truly believe what I say). You may...
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Putting NovaLink in Production & more PowerVC (1.3.1.2) tips and tricks
I’ve been quite busy and writing the blog is getting to be more and more difficult with the amount of work I have but I try to stick to my thing as writing these blogs posts is almost the only thing I...
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pvcctl : Using python Openstack api to code a PowerVC command line |...
The world is changing fast, especially regarding sysadmin jobs and skills. Everybody has noticed that being a good sysadmin now implies two things. The first one is “being a good dev”. Not just someone...
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Unleash the true potential of SRIOV vNIC using vNIC failover !
I’m always working on tight schedule, I never have the time to write documentation because we’re moving fast, very fast … but not as fast as I want to ;-). A few months ago we were asked to put the TSM...
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Running Docker on PowerSystems using Ubuntu and Redhat ppc64le (docker,...
Every blog post that I read since a couple of months are mentioning Docker, that’s a fact ! I’ve never been so stressed since years because our jobs are changing. That is not my choice or my will but...
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Building a “Docker Swarm as a Service” infrastructure on ppc64le Linux (w/...
First of all to avoid any ambiguity I first have to say that none of this work is the result of something that have been asked to me on my work place. This piece of work was done during my after hours...
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