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Early Vid: IBM p5 550Q

🕑 Added 2024-02-15 14:54:47 +0000 UTC

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clabretro

ah I wish I could. that'd be so useful. well, I just can't from this subpanel... could be done from the main panel 🤔

Adam Christensen

While you're doing electrical work, I highly recommend running a 240 volt line to the kitchen and buying a European kettle. It's super useful for cooking, not just tea and the like. The best part of the process is ignoring the warnings on 240 volt appliance websites saying that "these items won't work in the US".

Linh Pham

Yeah, feel free to send me a DM and I'll help out wherever I can

clabretro

ha, perfect!

ConnerWithAnE

I had today off, I woke up and said to myself "man it would be sick if there was suddenly a clabretro video" then not 20 minutes later it popped up. Great video as always, you're inspiring me to start get into some of this old gear.

clabretro

thanks as always for the great info! I think I'll be reaching out to you when I get stuck on that storage array haha

Linh Pham

One last bit, I think JDE stands for JD Edwards and JDEDB would be maybe Oracle?

Linh Pham

Also, regarding the IEC plugs and sockets distinguish the amount of amps that they are rated for. The C13/C14 are IEC rated at 10A max while the C19/C20 are IEC rated at 16A max. So, you'll probably see the C19/C20 on US power supplies rated above 1000W when designed for 100-120V. The same C13/C14 on 200-240V would max out at ~1600W (or 2000W if you bypass the IEC max).

Linh Pham

If I correctly remember back when I helped manage a p5 520, each of the management controller NICs would be attached to two separate systems or switches as a form of redundancy. As far as why it would be showing both IP addresses could be due to some failover scenario if one network controller is offline.

Jason Fenwick

I now have lunch break plans.

clabretro

ah ha, yeah that makes sense. I think those are the various "Expansion Units," as IBM calls them in the documentation.

Linh Pham

The HSL/RIO ports allow you to add additional shelves that support PCI, PCI-X, or PCIe (depending on generation) to a base system. As you mentioned, with the system capable of running multiple LPARS, the included PCI/PCI-X slots aren't enough if you need multiple I/O cards per LPAR (FC, Ethernet, SCSI, ATM, FDDI, etc.).