]> IBM System Planning Tool (SPT) RSS feed IBM System Planning Tool (SPT) news en-us Copyright (c) IBM Corporation 2001, 2008. All rights reserved. See http://www.ibm.com/legal/us/ for copyright and trademark information. tcstring@us.ibm.com rma@br.ibm.com Mon, 12 May 2008 08:00:00 GMT ibm.comhttp://www.ibm.com/systems/support/tools/systemplanningtool/sptrss.xml What's New in SPT 4.09.323
This is a scheduled major announcement and fix release containing the following enhancements and fixes:
  • Developed new installation code so that SPT can be reliably installed on a PC running Microsoft Windows 7
  • Allow SPT to run under a non-Administrator user profile
  • Changed the default DVD drive for the 8203-E4A and 8204-E8A from FC 5743 to FC 5762
  • Updated the calculations for the maximum number of 10Gb Ethernet adapters to take individual Ethernet ports into account
  • Allow the 9119-FHA to be configured and ordered without any internal DASD if SAN Boot controller is configured
  • Added informational message for ordering and configuring SSDs (Solid State Drives) in configurations where they might prove beneficial to performance
  • Ensure that all 12X I/O drawers that contain SSDs are set to Mode 2
  • Allow MPIO SAN volumes to be supported on Power6 systems for IBM i V6R1M1 partitions
  • Allow FC 5580 Disk Controller to be selectable as an Alternate Restart Device if controlling internal CD/DVD devices
  • Allow the 9117-MMA system to be ordered without DASD in the CEC if load source is specified as existing elsewhere
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This is a scheduled major announcement and fix release containing the following enhancements and fixes:
  • Added support for FC 3658 (428 GB disk) in the 9119-FHA for IBM i V5R4M5 partitions (though not as a load source)
  • Changed the maximum calculations for 10 Gb Ethernet cards to use number of ports rather than number of cards
  • Added support for IBM i V6R1M1 as valid a partition OS for all systems where it is now available
  • Added support for FC 5708 (FCoE) card as either an Ethernet or Fibre Channel card (but not both)
  • Added support for FC 5877 12X I/O Drawers on 8203-E4A, 8204-E8A, 8234-EMA and 9117-MMA systems
  • Allow the 1103 USB Internal Docking Station to be installed into the internal tape bay of 8203-E4A and 8204-E8A systems
  • Added dual controller support for IBM i partitions (at V6R1M1) for FCs 5903, 5904, 5906 and 5908
  • Added dual controller support for AIX and Linux partitions for FCs 5904, 5906 and 5908
  • Added support for FC 1885 (300 GB disk) on Power6 systems
  • Refined the rules for specifying controller relationships in all the 12X I/O expansion drawers
  • Added support for the FC 1886 and 1888 SFF SAS Disks for most Power6 systems
  • Fixed a problem where the FC 5679 was being wrongly discarded when importing an HMC-generated system plan
  • Disallow FC 5749 from being selected as an "Alternate Restart" device on Power 5 systems
  • Allow, in reasonable circumstances, the initial I/O unit of a system to be copied into the same or another system configuration
  • Added new sample plans featuring 8234-EMA and 9119-FHA systems
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This is a planned update and fix release containing the following enhancements and fixes:
  • Added support for copying expansions units containing hardware controlled by hardware in a different unit.
  • Fixed program exception that occurs when assigning DASD to a virtual storage pool
  • Corrected the CPW ratings for a couple of the 12-way 9117-MMA processors
  • Corrected the description for FC 2842 when it appear in the older P4 iSeries systems
  • Allow IOPs to be placed after IXS IOPs when those IXS IOPs are controlling self-contained IOAs
  • Allow the 5886 media drawer have disks assigned to the IASP-Switchable partition
  • Removed a constraint whereby fibre channel cards controlled by IOPs are not available as alternate restart devices
  • Change the hard validation error to a warning message for Power6 systems that have AIX partitions that don't have a Tape or Media backup device configured
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This is a planned announcement and fix release containing the following enhancements and fixes:
  • Allow the 7311-D20 expansion unit to be ordered with an 8203-E4A, 8204-E8A or 9117-MMA system when at least two 6312 Telephony features are ordered
  • Withdraw the 7311-D11 and 7314-G30 expansion units from valid with any new orders
  • Changed the descriptions of features 5749 and 5774 to be more accurate and useful
  • Fixed a problem that caused SPT to fail while importing or copying expansion units
  • Fixed a problem that caused an SPT error when creating or editing SAN volumes after deleting VIOS partitions
  • Fixed an error message that referenced an incorrect Drive Bay name
  • Added and populated a "Removable Media Ctrls" category to the parts lists for the 8203-E4A and 83204-E8A systems
  • Allow the 9933 and 9934 features to be placed and recognized as consoles in slot C04 of the 9406-525 system CEC
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This is a planned announcement and fix release containing the following enhancements and fixes:
  • Expanded the placement rules (for System i primary OS) in the 9119-FHA to AIX/Linux primary OS systems when the initial I/O drawer is the 5803
  • Implemented POS (Primary Operating System) codes for the 9125-F2A on initial orders
  • Disallow use of the FC 5608 Channel Attach card with the 5577, 5587 and 4967 processors in 8203-E4A and 8204-E8A systems
  • Allow a Load Source to be defined on a FC 5742 Repeater in the 5786 Expansion drawer
  • Allow the placement of a 5761 in slot C04 in system 9406-520 with the appropriate processor feature
  • Prevent the placement of FC 5702 under Linux when it would be controlled by a FC 2892 (PCI Integ xSeries Server)
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This is a minor announcement and fix release containing the following enhancements and fixes:
  • Removed the error message when specifying "Switch 4" setting for 5803 expansion drawers (as the Sales Configurator now supports this setting)
  • Corrected the selection of load source in the 5786 expansion tower to only allow the FC 5741 Repeater to be so designated
  • Fixed a problem that was not allowing FC 4746 to be recognized as a valid console in the 5790 expansion unit
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This is a scheduled announcement and fix release containing the following enhancements and fixes:
  • Added support for SAS disk drives (FCs 3647, 3648, 3649) via the 5886 expansion unit and the 5901 and 5912 disk controllers for Power 5 pSeries systems
  • Added support for SAS disk drives (FCs 3647, 3648, 3649) via the 5886 expansion unit and the 5904 and 5908 disk controllers for Power 5 iSeries systems
  • Increased the number of allowed 5803 expansion drawers to 32 and the number of allowed 5873 expansion drawers to 31 in the 9119-FHA
  • Output a better set of diagnostic messages when placing GX-type cards in Power 6 systems
  • Allow FC 5904 or 5908 to satisfy disk IOA requirements on the 8203-E4A
  • Allow the FC 5679 IOA to control disks in the 5886 expansion drawer in the 8203-E4A and 8204-E8A systems
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This is a scheduled announcement and fix release containing the following enhancements and fixes:
  • Added support for FC 5749 (PCI-X 4Gb Fibre Channel 2 Port External Disk Controller) to iSeries Power 6 systems
  • Fixed a problem that was preventing SPT from saving plans where partitions containing mirrored storage pools had been being copied into that system plan
  • Corrected the description for the FC 1883 and 1884 disk drives to correctly indicate that they are 15K RPM drives
  • Corrected the description for FC 3723 (2-Port Asynchronous EIA-232 PCI Adapter)
  • Fixed a problem that generated an incorrect message requiring a primary console IOA to be configured when one isn't actually needed
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This is a scheduled announcement and fix release containing the following enhancements and fixes:
  • Added support for three new Media Backplanes (FCs 8308, 8310 and 8346) for the 8203-E4A and 8204-E8A systems.
  • Added support for three new SAS Small Form Factor (SFF) Disks (FCs 1882, 1883, and 1884) on a number of Power 6 systems
  • Added support for two new SATA DVD devices (FCs 5743 and 5762) to several Power 6 systems
  • Added support for SATA Media (FC 5674) and SAS (FC 5878) Disk Backplanes and the SAS adapter in the 9117-MMA and 8234-EMA systems
  • Added support for two new 4.7 GHz processors for the 8203-E4A
    • 5577 -- 2-core 4.7 GHz POWER6+ Processor Card, 4 Memory DIMM Slots
    • 5587 -- 4-core 4.7 GHz POWER6+ Processor Card, 8 Memory DIMM Slots
  • Added support for a new 5 GHz processor on the 8204-E8A: 4967 -- 2-core 5.0 GHz POWER6+ Processor Card
  • Added support for two new 10 GBit Ethernet adapters (FCs 5732 and 5769) on most converged Power 6 systems
  • Added support for five new SAS adapters to some Power 6 systems:
    • 5901 -- PCIe Dual - x4 SAS Adapter
    • 5903 -- PCIe Dual - x4 3Gb SAS RAID Adapter
    • 5904 -- PCI-X DDR 1.5GB cache SAS RAID Adapter
    • 5906 -- PCI-X DDR 1.5GB cache SAS RAID Adapter (BSC2.5)
    • 5908 -- PCI-X DDR 1.5GB cache SAS RAID Adapter (BSC3.0)
  • Added support for a new Async Adapter (FC 5785 -- 4 Port Async EIA-232 PCIe Adapter) to several Power 6 systems
  • Added support for three new 69 GB Solid State Drives (FCs 1890, 1909 and 3586) to converged Power 6 systems
  • Add support for three new expansion drawers for Power 6 systems:
    • 5802 -- PCIe 12X I/O Drawer
    • 5803 -- PCIe 12X I/O Drawer (SFF Disk)
    • 5873 -- PCIe 12X I/O Drawer (Diskless)
  • Increased the number of high-performance Ethernet adapters allowed per CPU from 2 to 4 in the 9119-FHA system
  • Decreased the maximum of allowed FCs 5801 and 5903 within the 9119-FHA system
  • Added support for a new GX++ adapter (FC 5609) for the 8203-E4A and 8204-E8A for driving the 5802 expansion drawer
  • Changed the default media backplane and the default removable media devices for the 8203-E4A and 8202-E8A systems
  • Added support for FC 5923 to a number of Power 6 systems
  • Set initial order rules for slot and feature assignments for the 9119-FHA system when its primary OS is IBM i
  • Fixed a problem where an existing SPT sysplan file could not be opened that had V5R4M5 partition with an HEA adapter that is no longer supported
  • Fixed a problem when an SPT plan that had deleted a VIOS partition could not then be successfully saved
  • Changed the description and processor count for the 9645 and 9646 Editions in the 8204-E8A to reflect that they both contain 4-way processors
  • Updated the maximum memory allowed for the 5621 processor feature of the 9117-MMA from 128 GB to 256 GB.
  • Fixed a problem that was not allowing FC 5912 from being placed in the position it was in when it arrived from IBM Manufacturing
  • Allow the 9117-MMA to be ordered without any disk configured in the CEC
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This is a scheduled announcement and fix release containing the following enhancements and fixes:
  • Changed the level of OS support for feature 5637 from V5R4M5 to V6R1M0 in IBM i partitions
  • Updated the interactive CPW values for some converged system models
  • Updated the help text for the Processors panel in the Add System screen
  • Fixed the CPW value for the 4-way model 8204-E8A to match that of the 9409-M50
  • Changed feature 5735 from the LAN Adapters category to the External Disk Ctrls category
  • Improved performance for some user panel interactions
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This is a scheduled announcement and fix release containing the following enhancements and fixes:
  • Updated the rules and constraints for IOAs that drive 5720 media drawers
  • Added new memory points for initial orders of 8203-E4A and 8204-E8A systems
  • Updated the maximum quantities of the 5580, 5581 5590 and 5591 features in 8203-E4A and 8204-E8A systems
  • Increased the number of 5790 expansion units on a HSL/RIO loop for Power6 systems
  • Changed the number of 5721/5722 features allowed in the 7314-G30 expansion unit to 4
  • Fixed a problem that was preventing CD/DVD devices from being placed in 5094 expansion units
  • Allow unassigned CD/DVD and Tape devices to satisfy partition requirements
  • Corrected the list of allowed secondary partitions in older iSeries (Power4) systems
  • Fixed a problem that was preventing certain required features (like disk cages) from showing in the report
  • Corrected a sysplan deployment problem involving the recognition of certain expansion units that share the same chassis VPD (5791, 5794, 5797 and 5798)
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This is a scheduled announcement and fix release containing the following enhancements and fixes:
  • Increased the allowed quantities for FCs 5700/5701, 5706/5707 and 5721/5722 for the 9119-FHA
  • Updated the description for FC 5608 GX+ Adapter
  • Fixed a problem connecting to the Workload Estimator (WLE) from SPT
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This is a scheduled announcement and fix release containing the following enhancements and fixes:
  • Added support for the following FCs to the 9119-595 system:
    • 5720 -- DVD/Tape SAS External Storage Unit
    • 5912 -- PCI-X DDR Dual - x4 SAS Adapter
    • 5746 -- Half High 800GB/1.6TB LTO4 SAS Tape Drive
    • 5757 -- IBM 4.7 GB IDE Slimline DVD-RAM Drive
  • Added support for FC 5716 to the 9119-FHA system
  • Limited the allowed quantities of 5749s and 4746s in the 9119-FHA system
  • Allow up to 6 FC 5749s in the 5790 expansion tower
  • Added support for AIX 6.1 partitions to the 9125-F2A system
  • Require a FC 5912 on new orders of 9119-FHA that have IBM i as the primary OS
  • Adjusted the maximums for a number of FCs on the 8203-E4A and 8204-E8A systems to conform to current specifications
  • Improved error message for situations involving disk cages 6584 and 6594 and slots C4 and C5 in 9406-520 systems
  • Fixed problem with not being able to fully populate disk bays in several Power4 expansion units
  • Fixed error message involving the dual-purpose slots C1/C7 and C2/C8 in the 9406-550 system
  • Fixed a problem with incorrect renumbering of virtual slot ids
  • Corrected a problem with an imported HMC plan not properly finding the right processor feature to use on conversion
  • Fixed a problem that caused an internal exception when using the Installation tab
  • Added a diagnostic message when a single-partition non-HMC Power5 system has a load source outside the CEC
  • Eliminated erroneous "not supported" error messages when placing parts in a 9117-MMA containing both IBM i and AIX partitions
  • Disallow a 5614 bus adapter from being placed in slot C6 in a 8203-E4A system with 2-way processor feature 5634
  • Fixed an SPT crash when opening a saved sysplan file
  • Support Linux partitions on iSeries CBU Edition systems
  • Added support for identification of disks during system plan conversion
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This is a scheduled announcement and fix release containing the following enhancements and fixes:
  • Provide CPW numbers for all Power Systems that contain IBM family i partitions
  • Limit to 4 the number of 7311-D11 expansion units on a single RIO-2 loop in the 9117-MMA system
  • Default the 5797 as the initial I/O expansion unit for the 9119-FHA system
  • Fixed some slot speed descriptions for the 5798 expansion unit
  • Fixed the maximum number of FC5806 allowed in the 0595 expansion unit
  • Allow more flexibility for initial orders when no disks are in the CEC of the 9408-M25 and 9409-M50 systems
  • Disallow FC 5782 in the CECs of systems that don't require a blind swap cassette (allow FC 5778 instead)
  • Corrected a problem that wasn't allowing all the drive bays in the 5075 expansion tower to be populated
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This is a scheduled announcement and fix release containing the following enhancements and fixes:
  • Add support for a number of IOP-less fiber cards that can be used to drive SAN volumes
  • Allow FC 2962 to be placed in the 9119-FHA system
  • Allow the 4329 to be orderable on the 9119-FHA system
  • Add IBM i V5R4M5 and V6R1M0 as OSes that support the 5720 media drawer
  • Add support for FCs 5619 and 5746 in the 5720 media drawer
  • Disallow FC 5777 from being placed in the 9408-M25 CEC
  • Increase the number of FC 5749s allowed in the 9117-MMA system
  • Disallow FC 5778 from being placed in the 5790 expansion unit; use FC 5782 instead as a default
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This is a major scheduled announcement and fix release containing the following enhancements and fixes:
  • Initial support for the new 8234-EMA Power 6 system for AIX, Linux and IBM i partitions:
  • Includes new processor: 3.6 GHz Proc Card, 0/4 Core POWER6, 12 DDR2 Memory Slots
  • Added support for FCs 5900, 5902 and 5912 to the 7311-D20 and 7314-G30 expansion units
  • Added support for IBM i partition to the 8203-E4A along with the following Editions:
    • 9633 -- Power 520 1-core Entry Express Edition for IBM i
    • 9634 -- Power 520 1-core Growth Express Edition for IBM i
    • 9635 -- Power 520 2-Core Solution Edition for IBM i
    • 9636 -- Power 520 2-Core Express Edition for IBM i (30 user)
    • 9637 -- Power 520 2-Core Express Edition for IBM i (150 user)
    • 9638 -- Power 520 2-Core Express Edition for IBM i (Unlimited user)
    • 9639 -- Power 520 4-Core Express Edition for IBM i (50 user)
    • 9640 -- Power 520 4-Core Express Edition for IBM i (150 user)
    • 9643 -- Power 520 4-Core Express Edition for IBM i (Unlimited user)
  • Added support for IBM i partitions to the 8204-E48 along with the following Editions:
    • 9642 -- Power 550 Express Edition for IBM i
    • 9645 -- Power 550 2-Core Solution Edition for IBM i
    • 9646 -- Power 550 4-core Solution Edition for IBM i
  • Added support for the following new features on Power 6 systems:
    • 2728 -- 4-Port USB PCIe Adapter
    • 3649 -- 450GB 15K RPM, 3.5 inch, SAS Disk Drive
    • 3658 -- 428GB 15K RPM SAS Disk Drive
    • 5608 -- GX Dual-port 12X Channel Attach
    • 5735 -- 8 Gigabit PCI Express Dual Port Fibre Channel Adapter
  • Increased the quantity allowed of FCs 1986/1987 and 5713/5714 in the 9131-52A
  • Significantly increased the max quantities allowed in the 9119-FHA for FCs 5706, 5886, 5900, 5902 and 5912
  • Increased the max quantity of FC 6312 in the 7311-D20
  • Add support for three new processors for the 9119-FHA:
    • 7387 -- 4.4 GHz POWER6 -2 Core Processor Card, 0-core active, 12 DDR2 Memory Slots
    • 7388 -- 5.0 GHz POWER6 -2 Core Processor Card, 0-core active, 12 DDR2 Memory Slots
    • 7540 -- 4.2 GHz POWER6 -4 Core Processor Card, 0-core active, 12 DDR2 Memory Slots
  • Increased the quantity of FC 2833 allowed in the 9117-MMA:
  • Added support for two new processors for the 9119-FHA:
    • 4705 -- 0/8-core, 64GB Enabled POWER6 5.0GHz CoD, 0-core Active Processor Book
    • 7556 -- Cap. BackUp Power 595 5.0 GHz Processor 450 On/Off CoD Credit Days, 64GB Enabled
  • Added an energy estimate (in watts and BTU/hour) for the planned system onto the Summary tab
  • Fixed a problem with importing a plan involving the 9117-MMA and FC 5761 within an IBM i partition
  • Fixed a null pointer problem importing a plan generated by HMC 7.3.3
  • Fixed a problem when copy towers from a Power5 system to Power6
  • Fixed a problem that was preventing disk IOAs in Switchable-IASP towers from controlling external drives
  • Fixed a problem with correctly retaining fibre channel adapter settings for SAN volumes
  • Prevented fibre channel cards that require IOPs from being Alternate Restart devices
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