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We continue to evaluate adding a capability at each new generation of the high end Enterprise systems. In fact, several hardware changes went in to the POWER9 E980 design to enable this function. However, due to the severe complexity of the code to implement this function we were not able to provide this capability for the POWER9 systems. We will continue to evaluate this for future versions of the POWER high end servers.
For availability reasons the concurrent replacement of a FSP would be a very useful feature. This can dramatically reduce and eliminate the downtime of a E870C, E880C server. This feature should be also implemented for POWER9 servers.
For availability reasons the concurrent replacement of a FSP would be a very useful feature. This can dramatically reduce and eliminate the downtime of a E870C, E880C server. This feature should be also implemented for POWER9 servers.