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Tech Preview HMC appliance on Power and vHMC on Power with setup demo

Bob Schuster & Allyn Walsh

IT Specialist

Company

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HMC-on-Power V8R8.7.0; GA TBD 2H 2017

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Power S821LC (8001-12C)

HMC on Power

OS

HardwareMgmt

ServiceMgmt

PowerVMMgmt

REST GUI CLI

Power (Any)

vHMC PowerVM LE

PowerVC

RHEL

HMC on Power

OS

HardwareMgmt

ServiceMgmt

PowerVMMgmt

REST GUI CLI

…

• vHMC on PowerVM restrictions

▪ Headless, i.e. no local console

▪ No NIM installation support

▪ vHMC logical partition managing underlying host server is unsupported

▪ No support for powerpc-utils installation

HMC Hardware Bundle vHMC - no hardware

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HMC on 1U “Stratton” – 7063-CR1

HW Configuration

• 8001-12C re-used base configuration

• P8 120W 6C CPU 1

• 4 X 8GB = 32 GB DIMM

• 2 X 2TB 3.5” SATA HDD RAID 1

• RAIL bracket for round hole rack mounts

• 3 port USB2.0 hub in front of the server

HW Upgrade Options

• NONE

HW Warranty

• 1 year 5x9 NBD Base

• FRU/CRU structure like CR9

Image Installation

• Factory image installed by Supermicro

Recovery image

• Provided on ESS

• Upgrade/recovery via USB interface or

BMC virtual media

Announce : 2H/2017GA : 2H/2017MTM : 7063-CR1

Stratton 8001-12C

HMC on Power

Linux OS MCP 8.3

HardwareMgmt

ServiceMgmt

PowerVM

Mgmt

REST GUI CLI

Licensing

• Licensed Internal Code (LIC)

Support

• Minimum 1 year HWMA

• Minimum 1 year (Machine

Code Remote Support

Agreement) MCRSA

RAS

• Call Home support for HW and

SW issues

OEM

• Non-branded version available

• FW non-branded

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▪ 1U

▪ Up to 20 cores (2.9-3.3Ghz)

▪ 512 GB DDR4 Memory (16 DIMMs)

▪ 115 GB/sec max sustained memory bandwidth)

▪ 4x3.5” SATA drives, 32 TB Storage

▪ 4 PCIe slots, 3 CAPI enabled

▪ 1 Nvidia K80 GPU capable

▪ Default 3 yr 9x5 Warranty 100% CRU

Compute-Intensive workloads can now benefit from packing 2 POWER8 processors into a 1U

server design

• At least 1.8x more threads per 1U server enabling higher container densities compared

to Xeon E5-2690 v4 systems

• Ideal for dense database and virtualization workloads requiring system design balance

of through-put and density

Power Systems S821LC - MTM 8001-12C

Designed for compute intensive environments

NOTE: This is showing overview of the all the options on the hardware BUT not all will apply to Power HMC

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Power System S821LC - Mechanical View

Storage• 4x SATA/SAS/SSD/NVMe

Cooling• 8x 40mm CR Fans

Operator Interface• Power Button• LEDs: Identify, Fault,

NIC Status, Disk Activity

Power 8 Processor• 2x 130W Processors

PCIe Slot 4 & 5• Gen 3 x16 PCIe• Full high full length•300W / NVIDIA® K80 Capable• CAPI

PCIe Slot 3• Gen 3 x8 PCIe• Half high half length

PCIe Slot 2 (Internal)• Gen 3 x8 PCIe• Half high half length• CAPI

Native NIC• 4 Port 10G Base T

Power• 2x 1kW PSU• Redundant• Energy Star Titanium (96%)

Memory• 16x DDR4 DIMMs• Up to 512GB/System• 115GB/s per System

NOTE: This is showing overview of the all the options on the hardware BUT not all will apply to Power HMC

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Power System S821LC - Front and Rear View

Front

Rear

NOTE: This is showing overview of the all the options on the hardware BUT not all will apply to Power HMC

Power HMC Install – Initial Power-on

The Power HMC V8R8.7.0 software will be preinstalled in manufacturing – the following screens are to show how to use the recovery .iso to “Recover or Upgrade” the appliance

Start up Remote Control or Use Local VGA on BMC and then remote mount “hmcinstall.iso”

Configuring the IP address for the BMC interface http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/linuxonibm/liabw/liabwenablenetwork.htm

Getting mvcli tool for raid adapter setup (done in manufacturing)

Petitboot – Setup Raid Array (done in manufacturing)

Petitboot – Setup Raid Array - Item 4

Petitboot – Setup Raid Array - Item 5

Petitboot – Select Install HMC

HMC installing - new V8R8.70

HMC Installing

HMC Installing

HMC Installing

HMC Installing

• Only needed if one is going to upgrade existing install • This would then assume a “save critical data” was preformed prior to the

“upgrade”

HMC Finishing up installing

Configuration starting

Configuration starting

Configuration starting

Accept Licensing

GUI starting up

Guided Setup starting

Up and Ready to Setup !

Console settings

Configure IP on our Network

Setting static IP address – DHCP Server is supported as well if needed for your environment

Open Firewall ports as needed

Finish up Network Settings

Guided Setup Wizard

Didn’t like my “root” password …

Allow Remote Control

Allow Remote Command, Operation and Virtual Terminal

Up and running !! Notice Enhanced GUI only in V8R8.7.0 and beyond

Installing HMC on PowerVM Environment (LPAR)

IntroductionThe HMC virtual appliance enables clients to host the HMC virtual appliance as a virtual machine (VM) in their existing virtual environments or to provide a dedicated virtualized environment for the HMC virtual appliance.

The hardware appliance HMC and the virtual appliance HMC function essentially the same. The HMC virtual appliance can be used to manage any of the systems that are supported by the version V8R8.7.0. HMC, which includes Power Systems servers with IBM POWER7, POWER8, and POWER9 processors.

Installing HMC as a Virtual Appliance

Installing HMC as a Virtual Appliance

Installing HMC on PowerVM Environment (LPAR)

Installing HMC on PowerVM Environment (LPAR)

Installing HMC on PowerVM Environment (LPAR)

Installing HMC on PowerVM Environment (LPAR)

Since this installation is “headless” you will have to run all the commands listed on the previous chart to setup networking

Up and running !