Selected Power8 Ras Capabilities By Operating System - IBM Power System E850C Technical Overview And Introduction

Approve Call Home
Approves the Call Home of this event. This option is available only if the event is not
approved already.
The Help/Learn more function can be used to get more information about the other available
windows for the Serviceable Event Manager.

4.7 Selected POWER8 RAS capabilities by operating system

Table 4-2 provides a list of the Power Systems RAS capabilities by operating system. The
HMC is an optional feature on the Power E850C server.
Table 4-2 Selected RAS features by operating system
RAS feature
Processor
FFDC for fault detection/error isolation
Processor instruction retry
Dynamic processor deallocation
Core error recovery
Alternative processor recovery
Partition core contained checkstop
I/O subsystem
PCI Express bus enhanced error detection
PCI Express bus enhanced error recovery
PCI Express card hot-swap
Cache availability
Cache line removal
Dynamic bit-line sparing
Special uncorrectable error handling
Memory availability
Memory page deallocation
Dynamic DRAM sparing
Periodic memory scrubbing
Special uncorrectable error handling
AIX
V7.2 TL1 SP1
V7.1 TL3 SP5
V6.1 TL9 SP5
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
Chapter 4. Reliability, availability, and serviceability
Linux
RHEL 6.8
RHEL 7.2
SUSE Linux
Enterprise
Server 12
Ubuntu 16.04.01
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
X
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