Operating System Support; Virtual I/O Server; Ibm Aix Operating System - IBM Power 710 Technical Overview And Introduction

The IBM SDMC Virtual Appliance requires IBM Systems Director Management Console
V6.7.3 (5765-MCV).
Remember: If you want to use the software appliance, you have to provide the hardware
and virtualization environment.
At a minimum, the following resources must be available to the virtual machine:
2.53 GHz Intel Xeon E5630, Quad Core processor
500 GB storage
8 GB memory
The following hypervisors are supported:
VMware (ESXi 4.0 or later)
KVM (RHEL 5.5)
The SDMC on POWER6 processor-based servers and blades requires eFirmware level 3.5.7.
A SDMC on Power Systems POWER7 processor-based servers and blades requires
eFirmware level 7.3.0.
For more detailed information about the SDMC, see IBM Systems Director Management
Console: Introduction and Overview, SG24-7860.

2.14 Operating system support

The IBM POWER7 processor-based systems support three families of operating systems:
AIX
IBM i
Linux
In addition, the Virtual I/O Server can be installed in special partitions that provide support to
the other operating systems for using features such as virtualized I/O devices, PowerVM Live
Partition Mobility, or PowerVM Active Memory Sharing.
Tip: For details about the software available on IBM Power Systems, visit the Power
Systems Software site:
http://www.ibm.com/systems/power/software/index.html

2.14.1 Virtual I/O Server

The minimum required level of Virtual I/O Server for both the Power 710 and Power 730 is
VIOS 2.2.1.0.
IBM regularly updates the Virtual I/O Server code. For information about the latest updates,
visit the Fix Central website:
http://www-933.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/

2.14.2 IBM AIX operating system

The following sections discuss support for the various levels of AIX operating system support.
Chapter 2. Architecture and technical overview
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