Hardware Management Console and System Consoles

Do we need a physical HMC or is virtual HMC enough?

Virtual HMC works well for most shops and avoids dedicated appliance hardware cost. A physical HMC appliance still makes sense for environments that want a management console independent of general network availability, or that are standardizing on dedicated hardware across multiple sites.

Answer

Virtual HMC works well for most shops and avoids dedicated appliance hardware cost. A physical HMC appliance still makes sense for environments that want a management console independent of general network availability, or that are standardizing on dedicated hardware across multiple sites.

Even shops running virtual HMC should keep a documented local console access path for initial setup and firmware recovery scenarios where network access is not available.

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