IBM Power Systems Blog

Here is an extract from the Optimizing Power with Affinity Groups Poster Presentation I gave at the IBM Technical Symposium in Melbourne 2017. more »

We recently ran some load testing using Load Runner and the same workload was applied to two different LPARs with the exact same configuration. These tests show the reduced core requirements for a real world p7 to p8 migration. more »

We recently ran some load testing using Load Runner and the same workload was applied to four different LPARs with the exact same configuration. These tests highlight the negative effects from having high vCPU counts and low Entitlments. more »

How to Enable or Disable LPM for an LPAR from the HMC command line. more »

I have been looking at mpstat outputs for some time now and I have raised a number of PMR calls with IBM as I have found several discrepancies in the outputs. more »