What's new in Managing the HMC

April 2014

The following updates have been made to the content:

• As of Version 7.9, or later, the systems management for servers supports single root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) logical ports. See the updated Properties topic.
• As of Version 7.9, or later, systems management for partition supports SR-IOV logical ports. See the new SR-IOV Logical Ports topic and the updated Properties topic.

October 2013

The following updates have been made to the content:

• As of Version 7.8, or later, the HMC server supports the Dynamic Platform Optimization capability. See the updated Properties topic.
• As of Version 7.8, or later, the schedule operation for server supports monitoring and performing the Dynamic Platform Optimization capability. See the updated Schedule Operations topic.
• As of Version 7.8, or later, the HMC server supports the Systems Management for Power® Enterprise Pool functions. See the new Systems Management for Power Enterprise Pool topic.

March 2013

The following updates have been made to the content:

• As of Version 7.7, or later, you can install a Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) on a logical partition from an HMC by using a DVD, a saved image, or a Network Installation Management (NIM) server. See the updated Activate topic.
• As of Version 7.7, or later, you can store the VIOS images from a DVD, a saved image, or a Network Installation Management (NIM) server on the HMC. See the new Managing the Virtual I/O Server image repository topic.
• As of Version 7.7, or later, you can enable the Virtual Server Network (VSN) on POWER7® processor-based servers. See the updated Properties topic.
• The following topics were updated for upgrading the Licensed Internal Code (LIC) by using the HMC:
  • Change Licensed Internal Code for the current release
  • Upgrade Licensed Internal Code to a new release

October 2012

The following updates have been made to the content:

• With HMC Version 7.6, or later, you can view the Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) hardware topology for the selected POWER7 processor-based servers. The PCIe Hardware Topology topic was added.
• With HMC Version 7.6, or later, you can set the processing units to the lowest supported value of 0.05 processor per virtual processor. See the updated Properties topic.
• With HMC Version 7.6, or later, you can restore critical backup data by using a Secure Shell File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) server. See the updated Restore HMC Data topic.
• HMC Version 7.6 supports Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 - Microsoft Internet Explorer 9.0, and Mozilla Firefox Version 4 - Mozilla Firefox Version 10. See the updated Web browser requirements topic.

October 2011

The following updates have been made to the content:

• With HMC Version 7.4, or later, you can enable the Virtual Trusted Platform Module (VTPM) on POWER7 processor-based servers. The Properties topic was updated for the VTPM feature.

May 2011

The following updates have been made to the content:

• With the HMC Version 7.2, or later, you can suspend a logical partition with its operating system and applications, and store the virtual server state to persistent storage. You can resume the operation of the logical partition on the same system. The Suspend operations topic is new for logical partitions with the partition suspend and resume capability.
• With the HMC Version 7.2, or later, the system administrators can set password restrictions by activating the enhanced password policy. You can also create and activate the user-defined policy to set password restrictions. For more information, see Enhanced password policy.

September 2010

• Added information for the IBM® Power 710 Express and IBM Power 730 Express (8231-E2B), IBM Power 720 Express (8202-E4B), IBM Power 740 Express (8205-E6B), and IBM Power 795 (9119-FHB) servers.

February 2010

• Added information for IBM Power Systems™ servers that contain the POWER7 processor.