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Chapter 4. Planning for virtualization and
RAS in POWER7 high-end
servers
This chapter provides information about the suggested planning to help you enable your
Power System servers (Power 780 and Power 795) to exploit the RAS and virtualization
features.
In this chapter, we describe the following topics:
Physical environment planning
Hardware planning
CEC Hot Add Repair Maintenance (CHARM)
Software planning
HMC server and partition support limits
Migrating from POWER6 to POWER7
Technical and Delivery Assessment (TDA)
System Planning Tool (SPT)
General planning guidelines for highly ...