Today was not a good day at all for the “program”. _place_holder; The IBM
Power 560 system became completely unavailable to users. _place_holder;
This [
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housing 17 LPARs providing the platform for the J2EE, SOA, and Database
servers being used to jumpstart development and
demonstrations. _place_holder; No work was accomplished today, the system
failed. _place_holder;
After about 6 hours of shadowing IBM support, the processor books were swapped to their adjacent slots. _place_holder; This action has rendered the P6-560 usable again. _place_holder; I have started up the VIO servers and I am letting them burn in for a while to see if things will stay up. _place_holder; _place_holder; Based upon HMC reports, the secondary CEC failed. _place_holder; I still should have been left with an operational system having 8 of 16 processors and 64GB of 128GB memory prior to the IBM customer engineer arriving. _place_holder; Instead, the system did not live up to its premium investment and failed.
Right now, I have a minimal amount of confidence in the integrity and reliability of the IBM P6-560 system. _place_holder; Swapping and reseating components is not an appropriate resolution. _place_holder; A replacement processor book is being shipped, but I still have a bad feeling about the entire incident.
Our use of this P6-560 is a model for the future infrastructure of a very large IT project which may have included the acquisition of several larger Power systems.
This direction has now been placed into question.