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Status Future consideration
Workspace Hardware Management Console
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 16, 2021

RELATED IDEAS

Better support for RMC and Novalink

Currently, firmware updates rely on an RMC connection between the HMC and the individual AIX/Linux partitions. Also, Cloud Management Console relies on an RMC connection to the individual partitions to obtain some of its data.

We would like Novalink to be integrated to the environment in a better way, allowing to update POWER systems' firmware when there is only an RMC connection between the partitions and the managing Novalink partition; when updates are performed, the last step of updating partition firmware (PFW) could be initiated by the HMC, at which point Novalink could send a message through RMC to the partitions to perform the necessary actions.

We think requiring an RMC connection between the HMC(s) and all partitions is overkill, in particular since for day to day activities (including remote restart, dynamic LPAR operations and Live Partition Mobility) a connection between partition and Novalink is sufficient. This also allows for better security in multi-tenant environments and better scalability.

The current requirement makes concurrent firmware updates impossible (since we use Novalink and only Novalink has the RMC connection) which is bad for shared operations, requiring us to vacate a machine in order to update it, while we used to be able to do this concurrently.

Idea priority High

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