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IBM Virtualization Manager 1.2 beta
Hot on the heels of the System p AVE beta, is news we’ve opened up the beta program for the IBM Virtualization Manager 1.2. The Virtualization Manager helps manage both physical and virtualization...
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POWER6, Workload Partitions and Mobility
In the last month, I should have written a number of blog posts on our latest product announcements, instead I’ve been really busy. I have been spending most of my time on a root and branch review of...
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Whither the Hardware Management Console
So, most larger IBM server users have a Hardware Management Console. The word console makes these boxes seem like they just provide a GUI into the inner workings of the IBM Servers, but actually they...
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Live Partition Mobility – It’s alive!
So, we’ve had a ton of interest in Live Partition Mobility, I can say that from the presentations and briefings I’ve done with customers and analysts, it’s both the most interesting topic from our...
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Partition Mobility demo on YouTube
I mentioned in a post a couple back that we would be demoing the new Power 6 Partition Mobility to the great and the good out in San Francisco. Mark Kressin and the team behind the demo did a great job...
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AIX, VIOS and HMC Facts & Features
There is an excellent document listing and comparing all the functions, features, etc. of AIX, VIOS and HMC. It’s in the techdocs library and was written and updated by Ravi Singh. You can get it here....
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AIX/6 and Power 6 Enhancements — Tools for the task
I’ve been catching up on some back issues of the IBM Open Systems magazine, in the latest issue, August ’07, Ken Milberg provides a useful overview of the new AIX Workload Partitions and comes to the...
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A trapped animal is always dangerous
I initially wrote the following a version of this as a comment to John Meyers blog entry over on sun.com – Somewhere between starting the comment on his blog and finishing it, comments were closed and...
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More mobility, this time SAP
After my post back in August about the Partition Mobility video posted on YouTube, I got a few emails about the steps it actually took, what it looked like etc. Walter Orb at the IBM SAP International...
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Last weeks announcement recap, Power6 Blades and AIX
Thanks to the folks over at the “Power Architecture zone editors’ notebook” blog here is their summary of last weeks announcements. Get yours today: Listen UNIX users — the newly available IBM...
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Catching up on IBM Redbooks
Trying to find a reference book on AIX 6, I looked at the latest list of Redbooks for Power Systems, these are the ones listed in the RSS feed since the start of October 2007. IBM AIX Version 6.1...
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On PowerVM, Lx86 and virtualization of Windows
Yesterday saw the announcement of a re-packaging, re-branding and new technology drive for POWER™ Virtualization now PowerVM™. You can see the full announcement here. It is good to be back working on...
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Appliances, Stacks and software virtual machines
A couple of things from the “Monkmaster” this morning peaked my interest and deserved a post rather than a comment. First up was James post on “your Sons IBM“. James discusses a recent theme of his...
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RedMonk IT Management PodCast #10 thoughts
I’ve been working on slides this afternoon for a couple of projects, and wondering why producing slides hasn’t really gotten any easier in 20-years since Freelance under DOS? Why is it I’ve got a 22...
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Power VM configurability, Virtual Service Partitions and I/O virtualization
I must admit I’ve been a bit pre-occupied lately to post much in the way of meaningful content. For a frame of reference, I’m off looking at I/O Virtualization, NIC, FBA, Switch integration and...
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Power Systems and SOA Synergy
One of the things I pushed for when I first joined Power Systems(then System p) was for the IBM redbooks to focus more on software stacks, and to relate how the Power Systems hardware can be exploited...
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2008 IBM Power Systems Technical University featuring AIX and Linux
Yep, it’s a mouthful. I’ve just been booking some events and presentations for later in the year, and this one, which I had initially hoped to attend clashes with one, so now I can’t. However, in case...
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Now here’s an interesting uptime challenge
I was reading through some Cisco blogs to catch-up on what’s going on in their world for a current project of mine, when I saw this blog entry for today called “Beat this uptime” from Omar Sultan at...
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Physicalization at work – software pricing at bay
This is an unashamed take from an Arstechnica.com article, and I certainly can’t take credit for the term. I’m just back from a week of touring around Silicon valley talking about our thinking for Dell...
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IBM 3090 Training
Between 2001 and 2004, I had an office in the home of the mainframes, IBM Poughkeepsie, in Building 705. As a Brit’, it wasn’t my natural home, also, I wasn’t a developer or a designer, as a software...
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