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IBM Power10

IBM's own server architecture with PowerVM. It runs where AIX, IBM i or a database dictates the platform.

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What it is

Power10 is the tenth generation of IBM’s server architecture. It is not x86, and the PowerVM hypervisor is part of the platform rather than something installed on it. AIX, IBM i and Linux run on it.

What it is for

Applications that require the platform. That is the honest reason Power sits in a datacentre: an ERP on IBM i, a database with a long history, a system that was never ported.

As a general virtualization platform alongside an x86 estate it is the wrong choice. Two platforms means two operating models.

What to watch

The question is usually not a technical one. A Power environment runs for a long time without drawing attention, which is exactly why the people who know it eventually retire. Planning a refresh today means planning the succession alongside it.

What we do with it

Draft, unreviewed practiceReview: true

Draft, not yet reviewed. Power is in the building because of one application, and that application is usually an ERP. So the interesting question is rarely the server architecture. It is who will still be able to run the environment in five years.

This paragraph is a draft and nobody at soulTec has confirmed it yet. Everything above it describes the product and is checkable against the vendor.

Posts about it

vSphere 7 retires: end of support in October 2025

It is now definitely time to say goodbye to vSphere 7. Security updates and support end on 2 October 2025.

2025-06-05 · posts/announcing-end-of-support-life-for-vsphere-7-0.md · 120 words · 1 min · daniel-stadelmann

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HPE VM Essentials – Part 2

Part 1 covered where VME stood in mid-February. A few weeks on, a fair amount has changed, and we built a three-node VME cluster in our lab.

2025-05-06 · posts/hpe-vm-essentials-part-2.md · 578 words · 3 min · patrick-pletscher

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HPE VM Essentials – Part 1

HPE's own hypervisor, HPE VM Essentials, has been available in Europe since mid-February. Through the Morpheus Data acquisition, HPE has a proven KVM-based hypervisor.

2025-02-26 · posts/hpe-vm-essentials-part1.md · 631 words · 3 min · patrick-pletscher

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Free for everyone – VMware Fusion and Workstation

Homelab enthusiasts, students and commercial users: VMware has made Fusion and Workstation free for everyone.

2024-11-13 · posts/kostenlos-fur-alle-vmware-fusion-und-workstation.md · 295 words · 1 min · michael-steg

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redfishlib.cpp:264 :: In executeRedfishCall()

On a current project we run vSphere Lifecycle Manager together with HPE OneView and HPE OneView for vCenter, so a cluster image can carry the firmware as well.

2024-01-31 · posts/redfishlib-cpp264-in-executeredfishcall.md · 293 words · 1 min · dario-doerflinger

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VCSA IP Change

Have you ever thought about moving your ESXi servers into a different network segment? Reconnecting a host after an IP change can take up to 30 minutes. It does not have to.

2023-01-10 · posts/vcsa-ip-change.md · 311 words · 2 min · norbert-hamm

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Who works with it

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