CMC Updates - June 2020

The following updates have been made in this release:

• The Power Systems Private Cloud with Shared Utility Capacity expands IBM Power Enterprise Pools 2.0 beyond Power E980 systems to Power E950 systems.

• The Power Enterprise Pools 2.0 enablement feature EP20 and new base processor and memory activation features must be configured on any Power E950 system participating in the Power Enterprise Pool.

• One to thirty-two Power E980 or Power E950 systems are supported in a pool. Each system must have at least 1 core activated through Base Processor Activation features and at least 256 GB memory activation features activated through Base Memory Activation.

• Each Power E980 system with a Power Systems Firmware level earlier than FW940.1 and HMC Version earlier than 9.1.941 requires at least 25% of its installed processors activated through the Base Processor Activation features and at least 50% of its installed memory activated through the Base Memory Activation features.

• Each pool may have either Power E980 or Power E950 systems in it, but not both in the same pool.