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iPOWER Hour Episode 12: 7.2 End of Support ( POWER7, POWER7+, 7.2) and What It Means

Posted on November 15, 2019

Posted in: IBM Power Systems, Podcasts
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iPOWER Hour Episode 11: Technology Refreshes – What’s Changed in the Last 6 Months

Posted on November 7, 2019

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iPOWER Hour Episode 10: Keeping Your IBM i, FSP, and HMC up to date with the latest PTF

Posted on October 28, 2019

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iPOWER Hour Episode 9: How to Recover Quickly and Minimize Downtime

Posted on October 7, 2019

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iPOWER Hour Episode 8: Modernizing May Trucking

Posted on September 30, 2019

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iPOWER Hour Episode 7: Installing POWER9

Posted on August 29, 2019

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iPOWER Hour Episode 6: Next Generation Backup for IBM Power Servers ft. Cybernetics

Posted on August 16, 2019

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iPOWER Hour Episode 5: What’s New With Open Source on IBM i?

Posted on July 19, 2019

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iPOWER Hour Episode 4: An Introduction to the POWER9 Playground

Posted on June 28, 2019

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Moving a Physical Adapter via HMC using Classic GUI vs. Enhanced+ GUI or HMC V8R8.7.0 and higher version

Posted on February 26, 2019

Manually Moving the PCI Fiber Channel Adapter/IOA from Partition B to Partition A Note: Not shown in this process/steps, you will need to check and vary off, if needed, the resource using the physical adapter on Partition B, (i.e., tape library, tape drive), and then vary on the resource that will use the physical adapter on Partition A. Using the Classic GUI Sign into the HMC V7 Sign in OR Sign into the HMC V8 (V8R8.3.0 through V8R8.6.0) Check Classic (V8R8.6.0 final support for Classic GUI) Sign In In the…

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Questions to Ask Yourself When It Comes to Backup and Recovery

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When people talk to us about backup and recovery, one of the most common questions is “how often should I be doing a full system save?” Given we’re about to install PTFs or upgrade the OS, my response is always, “when was your last full system save?” What I do next is show them the QSAVSYS data area to at least find out exactly when the last SAVSYS (Save System, or Go Save option 22) was done. Now, this isn’t proof positive that a Go Save option 21 was taken…

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6 Steps to Help Back Up Your Data During Hurricane Season

Posted on September 10, 2018

This is a special edition of our newsletter due to Hurricane Florence, and our regular monthly newsletter will be delivered in 2 weeks. If you haven’t subscribed, join 15,000 other IBM i professionals by subscribing here. On Thursday of this week, we are bracing for Hurricane Florence to hit the Carolinas with massive flooding and wind damage up and down the eastern seaboard of the United States. Right after that, we have Hurricanes Isaac and Helene currently forming in the Atlantic, their direction is still indecisive. It’s hurricane season. Of…

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Cloud-Based Backups: Ideal Replacement for Tapes?

Posted on January 14, 2013

It’s amazing – and a little scary – how often we see it happen: A CIO of a small or midsized company puts a well-designed backup strategy in place. He or she assigns one of the IT staff to spearhead backups from now on. And then the CIO assumes the backups are happening on schedule, and basically forgets about the whole issue. Little does the CIO know that the data-filled backup tapes are just stacking up in the computer room, rather than being moved offsite regularly. This goes on for…

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iTech Solutions Group Blog

iPOWER Hour Episode 12: 7.2 End of Support ( POWER7, POWER7+, 7.2) and What It Means

iPOWER Hour Episode 11: Technology Refreshes – What’s Changed in the Last 6 Months

iPOWER Hour Episode 10: Keeping Your IBM i, FSP, and HMC up to date with the latest PTF

iPOWER Hour Episode 9: How to Recover Quickly and Minimize Downtime

iPOWER Hour Episode 8: Modernizing May Trucking

iPOWER Hour Episode 7: Installing POWER9

iPOWER Hour Episode 6: Next Generation Backup for IBM Power Servers ft. Cybernetics

iPOWER Hour Episode 5: What’s New With Open Source on IBM i?

iPOWER Hour Episode 4: An Introduction to the POWER9 Playground

iPOWER Hour Episode 3: Why Cloud? And when cloud makes sense.

Moving a Physical Adapter via HMC using Classic GUI vs. Enhanced+ GUI or HMC V8R8.7.0 and higher version

Questions to Ask Yourself When It Comes to Backup and Recovery

6 Steps to Help Back Up Your Data During Hurricane Season

Cloud-Based Backups: Ideal Replacement for Tapes?

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