HMC 870 Enhanced+ GUI Live Demo

for the Power Systems Virtual User Group v4

Nigel Griffiths
Power Systems
Advanced Technology Support
IBM Europe
 HMC Hardware update
Soon to be released: HMC running on a POWER8 server

POWER8 HMC Appliance – like the Intel HMC Appliance

• But more CPU cores, more RAM & disk space = faster too
• Special version of the POWER8 S821LC (Supermicro Stratton 1U)
• Simple to install, remotely start/stop using BMC + ipmitool + web

POWER8 virtual HMC – like the Intel vHMC

• Runs in a PowerVM LPAR on a POWER8 server (not KVM, XEN, VMware)
• Obviously, you can’t manage the server its actually running on!

Not covering that any more today …

[[Mixed=OK, T42 rack mount, Intel HMC appliance still available/no follow-on planned, no prices yet]]
 HMC Software update
HMC 860 today HMC 870 soon HMC 9xx - future
Run on Intel Runs on Intel/POWER8 Runs on Intel/POWER8
POWER6 POWER6 -
POWER7 POWER7 POWER7
POWER8 POWER8 POWER8
Classic & Enhanced+ Enhanced+ Only POWER9
Support till Q4 2018 Support at least 2019 Enhanced+ Only
CLI no change Supported for years

Some “missing” features Buying POWER9?

get added here like A good time to move
System Plans
to POWER8 HMC too

Not covering this any more today …

 HMC Enhanced+
There are good reasons for Enhanced+ and its 5 year plan:
• Covered very well in the AIX VUG session
• by Mr HMC himself Shamsundar Ashok
• http://tinyurl.com/ibmAIXVUG

• Including: faster to get a task done, less error prone, removing

unneeded complexity, more informative, live changes, VIOS login
unnecessary, better for Newbies, user research, …

• New features are Enhanced+ only as they can’t work in Classic like
templates, network diagrams, performance graphs & SSP details,
… and more
 HMC Enhanced+
Personally:
• Been using Enhanced+ to 18 months
• It is faster , better, friendly
• I never use “clunky Classic” any more

HMC GUI Performance:

1. Try HMC 860 or 870
2. If its slow, raise a PMR to get your
HMC HW/SW or
network fixed or
workstation or browser sorted out
 HMC Enhanced+ Live Demo
I am using:
• POWER8 HMC running HMC 870 (beta version)
• Remotely over Internet – the computer room is 15 miles away
• Thinkpad T450, Windows 7 plus Chrome Browser

Covering:
1. Tour of the general user interface features
2. Specific common user tasks
3. Advanced features
to get you off to a flying start with your move over to Enhanced+

Not covering:
•Assuming you know HMC Classic = not covering identical parts
•Everything HMC feature = 8 hour demo
•Nor user requests for specific features
•The other 70 slides - which you can download later today.
Demo Time
 Finished
1. HMC 870 Enhanced+ only
a. Enhanced+ GUI is fast, flexible & simple to operate
b. Still with unchanged CLI (local & remote) & REST API
c. Results of a 5 year program for a better HMC
d. Coming soon

2. POWER8 HMC with 870 is faster

3. HMC 860 has Classic GUI and support till Q4 2018

• HMC 910 will be mandatory for POWER9

Screenshots from the Demo
 The new HMC Logon Screen – nice Status Overview
Note in 870 the is no Classic / Enhanced+ GUI option

List of comparing the Menu’s

Classic <-> Enhanced+
When you log in there is a peak in data
being downloaded to your workstation
Search on a selected Column
Clear
Search on a selected Column
Multi-column selection
 Pin current view to the
list of quick lookup views

Hide/See Pin & Task Panels

Completed tasks Panel

Green=OK Red=failed
DotDotDot=on-going
After drilling in to Server “emerald” we have a bread crumb trail
use this to back out or pop a list down to godirectly to a sibling
Select System + Update

+ Update

Use the other red places

My favourite
places
Starts Classis
like pop-up
Drill down in to the Systems = Server
Select this System then Action
Drill into this System
Operations ona Systems = Server
Operations ona Systems = Server
Drill down in to
a System = Server
 Current Panel

More
Panel names Linux VM with
Hide no RMC setup
Make a change
Then click the blue
Save button to
confirm the update
Partitions = Logicial Partition (LPAR)
Virtual Machines (VM)
 Select & Action Filter

Info Performance summary

Running
Power off
Drill down in to a VM

Change & Save

Drill down in to a VM

Change & Save

Drill down in to a VM
 Change & Save

Change & Save

Virtual I/O Server (VIOS)
Very like Partitions
Groups
Groups can contain:
System (Server)
Partition (VM)
VIOS
Mixture of Systems, Partitions & VIOS
Shared Storage Pools

Warning: some panels take time as it queries the VIOS

 Need to have VIOS(s)
- not already in a SSP
- with LUNs that could be used
- attached to this HMC
Then you can select the
. LUNs, a Repo and build a SSP

.
Change the Repository disk

Add/remove a VIOS
 Failure Group View = mirrors on a different Disk unit

Rename or Replace a disk = can move you data to a different Disk unit
 SSP View = virtual SSP disks (called a LU)

.
Templates can be for
1. System – whole new machine
• Useful if you have many identical servers
2. Partitions – a new VM
• Useful for a quick LPAR/VM
3. Also managing OS and VIOS images
to allow HMC to install them = a “Classic HMC” feature
1
3

4
5

7 = Summary
6

Finish
Similar for VIOS images
Then the HMC can install AIX VIOS
Using NIMOL = NIM on Linux
Performance Dashboard

Big area so just a quick look around

CPUs
RAM

Disks Network
If time allows show some common tasks
1.VM Start and stop
2.Dynamic LPAR change add a couple of CPUs
3.LPM
4.System Power-off and On
 Finished
Replay and these slides from the
Power Systems Virtual User Group
http://tinyurl.com/PowerVUG

Cheers, Nigel Griffiths & Jyoti Dodhia