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I'm of two minds to this. I have a personal POWER6 running AIX and it handles my main hosting and mail. It's a great box and I love the hardware, but the IBM sa

I'm of two minds to this. I have a personal POWER6 running AIX and it handles my main hosting and mail. It's a great box and I love the hardware, but the IBM salesdroids would never talk to me (I do all my business through a VAR), and the CUoD nonsense and having to use a whole separate HMC to manage the single LPAR is obnoxious. On the other hand, I absolutely love my Talos II. It's not an IBM machine, but it's engineered by them; the POWER9 is IBM, a lot of the OpenPOWER and PowerNV stuff is still as IBM designed it, and IBM contributes hardware support. So I understand this feeling when dealing with IBM as a vendor. They suck. But I think IBM hardware is solid and their R&D is top-notch, and I'd buy IBM again (just not from them).

avip 8y ago
TLAs I identify: - AIX - IBM - R&D To be interpreted: - POWER* - VAR - CUoD - HMC - LPAR - OpenPOWER Conclusion: I'm not a sysadmin.
- detaro 8y ago
  To be fair, a bunch of the latter ones are fairly specific. roughly: POWERx: IBMs CPU architecture VAR - value added reseller: if you're to small to talk to an enterprise vendor directly, or want a mix of stuff, you buy from them. (the "value added" bit is that ideally they sell you setup or other services in combination) CUoD - Capacity Upgrade on Demand: IBM will sell you a server with more CPUs and memory than you paid for. If you then need more, you can buy a license key to temporarily or permanently turn on the extra hardware that's already in your server HMC - Hardware Management Console: Terminal/interface you use to configure the server and the firmware. LPAR - Logical PARtition: POWER systems have a hypervisor at the firmware (and to a degree hardware) level. the "virtual machines" you create on it are called LPARs. OpenPOWER: IBMs effort to make POWER CPUs and surrounding hard- and software more open (partially sharing designs with partners, partially open sourcing)
  - avip 8y ago
    Thanks! I was half joking, but that was really interesting and to the point.

avip 8y ago

TLAs I identify: - AIX - IBM - R&D To be interpreted: - POWER* - VAR - CUoD - HMC - LPAR - OpenPOWER Conclusion: I'm not a sysadmin.

detaro 8y ago
To be fair, a bunch of the latter ones are fairly specific. roughly: POWERx: IBMs CPU architecture VAR - value added reseller: if you're to small to talk to an enterprise vendor directly, or want a mix of stuff, you buy from them. (the "value added" bit is that ideally they sell you setup or other services in combination) CUoD - Capacity Upgrade on Demand: IBM will sell you a server with more CPUs and memory than you paid for. If you then need more, you can buy a license key to temporarily or permanently turn on the extra hardware that's already in your server HMC - Hardware Management Console: Terminal/interface you use to configure the server and the firmware. LPAR - Logical PARtition: POWER systems have a hypervisor at the firmware (and to a degree hardware) level. the "virtual machines" you create on it are called LPARs. OpenPOWER: IBMs effort to make POWER CPUs and surrounding hard- and software more open (partially sharing designs with partners, partially open sourcing)
- avip 8y ago
  Thanks! I was half joking, but that was really interesting and to the point.