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Status Not under consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 21, 2025

Frame P8 support on HMC V11

Many customers still have P8 frames in service because it's the latest version supporting AIX 5.3.

Lot of infrastructures have P8 and P10 frames connected to the same HMC. The refusal to support P8 frames requires segmenting the management of these infrastructures or remaining stuck on version 10. Can you please ensure that P8 frames are supported on version 11 of the HMC? Even with degraded functionality?

Idea priority High
  • Guest
    Aug 29, 2025
    HMC Always supports only N-2 release versions of systems. Hence this is not possible.
  • Guest
    Aug 21, 2025

    I totally agree with this post.