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IBM Hardware Management Console
IBM Hardware Management Console
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Setting up an IBM HMC, a Hardware Management Console to remotely manage an IBM System p5 POWER machine from 2006. The HMC is a period-correct IBM eServer xSeries 336 from 2006.
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I have used a very similar serial breakout board; it was a nightmare to get working under linux, as driver support for it had never been mainlined, and the manufacturer's drivers worked on kernels up to 2.6. I ended up doing something terrible with a qemu virtual machine and device passthru iirc.
Huh, Logical Partitions sure do seem a lot like virtual machines…
Ahh. Smarch 48th, 1980. I remeber it well.
Lousy Smarch weather as usual.
Quick read on the network card error, but I think what it was saying was that the card was actually "in the wrong PCI slot" so it was responding as intended.
I'm pretty sure one of those PCI-X slots is 100MHz and one is 133MHz. The card is intended for the 100MHz slot, but was installed in the 133MHz slot, meaning it was 'installed in the wrong slot'. If there were two cards installed, the system would assume that you intended for that to happen because something else was already in the other slot, but when there's only one card present, it's 'working as intended' to advise you that you could be using a 133MHz slot for a faster card.
I started the computer club in my high school (circa 2010/11) and my school basically gave us free reign of any computer equipment that had been stored for longer than a decade. I took home old Pre LPO Tape storage libraries, big lead acid UPSs, that same GL380 you played with earlier. We upgraded our server to a Dell Poweredge R905 (I might be wrong but it's quite similar). If you ever see one you HAVE to pick it up. It had 4 P4 Era Xeon CPU's with 24GBs of ram. It used these crazy ram catties you installed in the front. I think it used 512MB DDR sticks. You had to install a weird kernel patch that somehow gave Windows 2003 32bit access to all of it. It took me hours to figure out how to do it when I was 14. They are so rare but out of all of the servers I've owned outside of blade servers, that thing was the most interesting. I have always wanted to play with one of these Power Servers though
Hey brother, I was thinking that serial IO card would of been used a PLC. I once hooked up a server in a cement quarry to with some fancy weight scales. Because it was that sensitive they needed to stick the server right in where the conveyor system was. The whole plant was running on a custom PLC was pretty damn cool to wire up!
Have to ROFL at your soldering and putting the battery in backwards, we're all human mate!
Ouch! I understand that it was the Enterprise wilderness and money milking. But just today in a new installation probably no one would pay any bit of attention to think to get any of commercial Unix anymore. At least RHEL(clones) install themselves without much headache, of course management console is another paid ting either from RH or Canonical, but at least your start your server initialization much more easier.
Wait till you discover live kernel updates and live swapping of instances between different metal.
Glad I'm not the only one! 😅
I find these IBM servers impressive, but according your experience you would tell that these are hard to work around?
The AIX menu system is called SMIT. The command line version is called smitty. The commands to navigate through the menus and list options are the bottoms of the screen. The idea behind it was they could allow for anybody to administrate and perform basic tasks with it. We builr up custom SMIT screens for our software and lab tools so that people could manage the system easily.
One of the nice features is that SMIT can show you the commands it is about to run by pressing the F6 button. As you showed at login, SMIT also logs all of the commands into a plain text log file so that you can see what was done under the covers. it's a great way to learn how AIX does things.
It's still my favorite UNIX.
ive never got a chance to play with a 1u server this was years ago im not sure how long ago exactly but i can remember it was a 1u Dell server in a silver color
Could the hard drives that displayed 0MB capacity be from part of a RAID array?
14:31 the DC LED have a reversed icon. Is that just a different icon, or that means the polaris of output are also reversed between two PSUs ?
Great video! Was waiting for another appearance of this machine.
I like how the replacement PSU gets DC power from its twin in order to diagnose itself and blink its lights.
Nice set of machines! One thing to note about the RAID controller on these pServers is in order to actually config the RAID array, you must use the "Standalone Diagnostics CD" to interact with the controller. Now as far as the whole Capacity On Demand thing goes (HW licensing), I believe it only pertains to dynamically adding or removing resources from LPARs, not 100% on that since my only source on that is some obscure sales brochure and my P6 not caring about me playing musical CPU books.
Other than that nice vid! I look forward to more POWER goodness in the future!
IBM does not only have a setting for language but for "Cultural Convention" as well.
Ah.. Finally the HMC video 👍🏻 So when is the CSM video ? 😉 Yep another IBM Acronym 🤗 Before the CSM was CWS… Fun fact, the lowest CPU you can give an LPAR is 1/10th 😉
Only touched these things as a DBA, so the exotic and interesting Power hardware was kept away from me and interacted only through a boring DB console. Great to see these being tinkered with at a low level.
I wouldn't be surprised if that "dead" power supply is fine and just needs a fan.
I love the older IBM machines but man do I hate the flexible hard drive cage with the cover that gets stuck because when changing drives I have had to rework some of those metal tabs when they get caught on the hard drive mount.
direct thumbs up after the intro 🙂
What type of RAM do you need for this? If it's typical server RAM, I'm assuming registered ECC. I have a little left over from a kit I bought for one of my servers that you are welcome to if you'd like.
It’s almost 4AM and here I am
At what price were you buy ThinkCentre thin clients?
And also, what can you advise for a small (not about the size) home server? The budget is about $350
Okay, tuning out the Thanksgiving family to watch. 😁
System p5? that seems huge than my HP Compaq Small Form Factor from 2008!
Woo I'm early to a video for once! This era of IBM stuff is really great, I'm excited to see how this goes!
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