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4.3.3 Planning guidelines and prerequisites
Implementing CHARM requires careful advanced planning and meeting all prerequisites. You
need to request the free pre-sales “I/O Optimization for RAS” services offering. The system
must have spare processor and memory capacity to allow a node to be taken offline for hot
repair or upgrade.
You must configure all critical I/O resources using an operating system multi-path I/O
redundancy configuration, for example, multi-path I/O (MPIO), SDDPCM, PowerPath, HDLM,
and so on).
You must configure redundant I/O paths through separate nodes ...