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or later), and KVM (Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.5). The virtual appliance is only
supported or managing small-tier Power servers and Power Systems blades.
Table 2-38 and Table 2-38 detail whether the SDMC software appliance, hardware appliance,
or both are supported for each model.
Table 2-38 Type of SDMC appliance support for POWER7-based server
The IBM SDMC Hardware Appliance requires an IBM 7042-CR6 Rack-mounted Hardware
Management Console and IBM SDMC indicator (#0963).
Note: At the time of writing, the SDMC is not supported for the Power 770 (9117-MMC)
and Power 780 (9179-MHC) models.
IBM intends to enhance the IBM Systems Director Management Console (SDMC) to
support the Power 770 (9117-MMC) and Power 780 (9179-MHC). IBM also intends for the
current HMC 7042-CR6 to be upgradable to an IBM SDMC that supports the Power 770
(9117-MMC) and Power 780 (9179-MHC).
POWER7 models Type of SDMC appliance supported
7891-73X (IBM BladeCenter® PS703) Hardware or software appliance
7891-74X (IBM BladeCenter PS704) Hardware or software appliance
8202-E4B (IBM Power 720 Express) Hardware or software appliance
8205-E6B (IBM Power 740 Express) Hardware or software appliance
8406-70Y (IBM BladeCenter PS700) Hardware or software appliance
8406-71Y (IBM BladeCenter PS701 and PS702) Hardware or software appliance
8231-E2B (IBM Power 710 and IBM Power 730 Express) Hardware or software appliance
8233-E8B (IBM Power 750 Express) Hardware or software appliance
8236-E8C (IBM Power 755) Hardware or software appliance
9117-MMB (IBM Power 770) Hardware appliance only
9179-MHB (IBM Power 780) Hardware appliance only
9119-FHB (IBM Power 795) Hardware appliance only
Note: When ordering #0963, the features #0031(No Modem), #1946 (additional 4 GB
memory), and #1998 (additional 500 GB SATA HDD) are being configured automatically.
Feature #0963 replaces the HMC software with IBM Systems Director Management
Console Hardware Appliance V6.7.3 (5765-MCH).
Neither an external modem (#0032) nor an internal modem (#0033) can be selected with
IBM SDMC indicator (#0963).
To run HMC LMC (#0962), you cannot order the additional storage (#1998). However, you
can order the additional memory (#1946).