U866665readme PDF
U866665readme PDF
U866665readme PDF
The PTF enables 5.3 TL12 Power8 support with the following limitations:
* The LPAR must be at AIX 5.3 TL12 SP9 (latest 5.3 release).
* The Power8 LPAR will run in Power6 compatibility mode and is limited to SMT2 mode, which
is the natural operating mode for AIX 5.3. Power8 servers can support SMT4 and SMT8 modes
as well that are available to more current AIX releases. IBM publishes SMT2 rPerf values
that can be used to quantify Power8 SMT2 capacity
* 5.3 Power8 LPARs only support Virtual I/O configurations: vSCSI, NPIV, VLAN
* Power8 systems support a minimum entitlement of 0.05 physical processor units per VCPU
(virtual processor). AIX 5.3 requires 0.1 physical processor units per virtual processor.
If a 5.3 Power8 LPAR does not have sufficient entitlement, it will fail to start.
* 5.3 LPARs support a 64 VCPU maximum with the 64-bit kernel or a 32 VCPU maximum with the
32-bit kernel. Power8 systems allow LPARs with larger VCPU configurations. If the 5.3
VCPU maximum is exceeded, the LPAR will fail to start.
Other restrictions:
* Remote restart is not supported with Power8 5.3 LPARs
* Power8 5.3 LPARs are not supported with a VIOS using Shared Storage Pools.
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