U.S. Announcement: 109-577

The IBM Rack-mounted Hardware Management Console (HMC) (7042-CR5) is a dedicated workstation for system and partition control of IBM POWER5, POWER5+, POWER6, and POWER6+ processor-based servers. The HMC is designed to deliver access control from both the GUI and command line; LPAR control; HMC installation, backup, and restore via network interface; remote sharing support for IBM i console sessions through the 5250 Console Proxy; support for automatic installation of AIX and Linux via the System Planning Tool; remote call-in through a renewable machine control program remote support agreement; round-the-clock error reporting via Electronic Service Agent for fast support; and advanced service functions, including guided repair and verify and concurrent firmware updates for managed systems.