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Status Planned for future release
Workspace Hardware Management Console
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 25, 2025

RELATED IDEAS

Allow VIOS/Novalink as proxy for RMC connection (auto-discovery?)

In our case the HMC does not have an RMC connection to the AIX and Linux LPARs due to our networking setup; it DOES have an RMC connection to the Virtual I/O Servers, which in turn have an RMC connection to Novalink, which acts as the managing instance for our POWER servers (in combination with PowerVC).
Certain features nowadays rely on a proper RMC connection between the HMC and the LPARs running, e.g. for concurrent firmware updates. Possibly more RMC uses pop-up when additional "zero-planned downtime" features are implemented.

It would be very advantageous if the HMC could "forward" the RMC communication to the LPARs (and back when needed) across the Virtual I/O server and/or Novalink, depending on which of those has an active RMC connection. The HMC can find out which Novalink partitions and VIO servers there are, and which one(s) have an active RMC link. Any auto-discovery of the possibilities would provide additional flexibility and ease-of-use. It would allow customers with network-limitations to still use concurrent firmware update and/or other (new) features requiring RMC. 

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