Restoring a 2007 IBM POWER6 Server 🚀

Taking a look at an IBM POWER6 machine rescued from a dumpster. We'll get this thing powered on and hooked up to an HMC, and also cover the IBM pSeries and iSeries history.

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Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio

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00:00 Intro
00:52 POWER6 520 Express Backstory
05:39 pSeries History
07:55 iSeries History
09:57 Power Systems Financials
13:33 POWER6 Physical Overview
25:16 Serial Remote Management
29:05 ASMI Web Interface
31:35 Powering it on
35:28 Getting the POWER6 in the Retro Rack
41:31 Managing with the HMC
53:21 Next Steps