[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]
“In addition to making several storage-related announcements
last Tuesday for the iSeries line, IBM has also listened to its
customers and developed a new way to create and manage Linux
partitions on the iSeries without the need of the Hardware
Management Console. The HMC is an external Linux-based management
console that controls logical partitions on i5 and p5 Power-based
servers. It costs several thousand dollars, and is something of a
pain in the neck for small- and medium-sized businesses.“To that end, IBM has created a third way to do Linux
partitions, one that gets rid of some of the vulnerabilities in
using logical partitions on pre-Virtualization Engine, i5/OS-class
iSeries iron even if it does have some restrictions and is not,
technically speaking, as resilient or flexible as using the
HMC…”
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