Apparently it is possible (have never done) to IPL an LPAR from the DVD on the HMC. Of course, the problem with this, at least in a remote situation, is that somebody needs to insert the correct DVD into the HMC's DVD drive. The current HMCs, as I understand it, run Linux as the OS. I have often booted virtual machines on a hypervisor on Linux/Intel. Wouldn't it be neat if you could write an ISO image of a DVD into a directory on the HMC so that you could then IPL from it. Even better would be if said writing to the ISO image were controlled from the HMC so that the image is placed into a specific directory, perhaps with a description, and that you could IPL the LPAR by selecting the ISO image from a list of ISO images with their description. If you want really weird, how about the ability to direct the HMC to download an ISO image (and validate it) from an IBM site such as ShopzSeries so you wouldn't need a DVD at all. IIRC, you can install z/VM via DVD (no tapes) so wouldn't be nice to have the HMC be able to download an ISO image which you could then IPL to install z/VM. I am also under the impression that, for a fee, you can also get a z/OS DVD image in order to install z/OS. I don't know if you can do this for Linux or not. I also don't know about z/VSE and z/TPF.
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