HMC 860 Enhanced+ & Classic is DEAD

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1 HMC 860 Enhanced+ & Classic is DEAD Nigel Griffiths Power Systems Advanced Technology Support IBM Europe 2016 IBM Corporation HMC Classic User Interface 2 Copyright IBM Corporation

2 HMC Classic User Interface 3 Agenda 4 Generic HMC Update see Gareth Coates PowerVM VUG session replay Session 62 8 th Feb 2017 HMC V8R860 - recent, important updates and changes Today only about HMC Enhanced+ Plus at the end HMC Futures Remind me! Copyright IBM Corporation

3 HMC Enhanced+ User Interface 5 Questions 6 Who has heard of HMC Enhanced+? When first available? Copyright IBM Corporation

4 Questions 7 Who has heard of HMC Enhanced+? When first available? HMC HMC Resources 8 HMC Community on IBM DeveloperWorks oups/community/powerhmc PowerVM LinkedIn group PowerVM (VIOS, HMC, Hypervisor Copyright IBM Corporation

5 Classic Graphical User Interface 9 HMC update in Q has it removed Most new features in last 2 years Only in Enhanced+ Costly for IBM to develop 2 GUI Yes ALL features will be available in Enhanced+ Probably not called Enhanced+ The HMC GUI Switching Classic Enhanced+ 10 You can t have Classic & Enhanced+ open at same time It just diverts you to the currently open one Use two different browsers I switched to new Enhanced+ GUI some time ago but If very short of time (in a panic) switch back to classic Classic launches a separate browser window Enhanced+ stays in the Firefox browser Tab Nicer IMHO Don t rush in while the page is still loading Copyright IBM Corporation

6 In practice the learning curve 11 You will go through different phases 1. Oh heck! What the Dickens is this about. I can t do this now! 2. Oh nuts! I can t find any thing! 3. Oh! Darn... its got to be here somewhere! 4. Oooo! That was cool! 5. I wonder what that button does? Wow! 6. Hey, I seem to be getting the hang of this now! 7. Yep! This is workable. 8. I have five minute lets try something I have never done before. 9. Now its working faster I will use it & prefer it. In practice: not going to teach you to suck eggs 12 If we click a Enhanced+ Button and get to the Classic pop-up panel we will stop there LPM Validate User Profiles Copyright IBM Corporation

7 1. Basic Navigation a) Systems, Partitions, VIOS, + b) Views: gallery, table, interlinked c) Filtering d) Select Actions View All e) Pin & Tasks & Bread crumbs 2. Severs a) i for Info & Pie for brief perf. + Performance Dashboard b) Menu v^ 3. Create a VM via templates + vdvd 4. Virtual Machine a) General b) Start & stop a Server or VM c) Dynamic VM change (DLPAR) d) Live Partition Mobility (LPM) e) Network & Storage views 5. Shared Storage Pools add tier, create LU 6. User control 7. Which VM is using the machine most? 13 If this goes WRONG - I blame the network in Norway Future New HMC release number starting with a XXXX Normal release cycle Q Features No Classic GUI * No POWER6 support * POWER9 support for later in the year 14 * already announced HMC appliance: Minimum (my guess) CR8 or CR9 etc. Enhanced+ needs plenty of RAM so does REST API stats & new Cloud app features Copyright IBM Corporation

8 HMC export performance data 15 POWER8 ONLY Uses REST API Non trivial Programming access VM Performance stats available for a year In December, 2016 the following were added: Electrical power supply (Watts) Temperatures (Celsius) Shared Storage Pools size, used, read and write stats for bytes, operations, service times, errors IMHO: Documentation missing makes this has been working Worked Examples See AIXpert Blog for the details & python programs C Model & purchasable HMC from the Cloud 16 Comes with Enterprise C models no charge Other machines purchasable Activate from HMC HMC uploads inventry, status, logs to Bluemix service More functions to follow Accessible: mobile, tablet or PC Currently in ESP GA ~end of April Copyright IBM Corporation

9 C Model & purchasable HMC from the Cloud 17 Product name not fixed yet Power Cloud Service or Cloud Apps for Power New look 18 Copyright IBM Corporation

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11 HMC - Summary 21 Continues to mature and improve Main new features Power Enterprise Pools Simplified Remote Restart Performance data REST API/CSV Watts, Celsius, SSP New Virtual Cloud App staged release Develop your skills use Enhanced+ GUI early Are you keeping up to date? 22 mr_nmon on twitter Only used to POWER / AIX technical content, hints, tips and links 150 techie hands-on videos on YouTube at AIXpert Blog Lots of mini articles & thoughts Also: Copyright IBM Corporation

12 Gallery View 23 Missing Server Server Table View 24 Missing Servers Servers Copyright IBM Corporation 2014 Copyright IBM Corporation

13 Restricted View 25 Disconnected Server Server LPAR / VM Server LPAR / VM Copyright IBM Corporation 2014 Copyright IBM Corporation