International Business Machines Corporation

Lenovo (singapore) Pte. Ltd.

Deepti Umarani

Manjunath Basappa Muttur

Chad J Larson

Daniel Gerard Thornton

Douglas J Griffith

Angela Astrid Jaehde

Alexander J Stundzia

A computer system is monitored for conditions bearing on the effective age of various hardware components of the system. Upon detecting an age adjustment condition, the affected hardware components are identified. An age adjustment is determined for each of the affected hardware components. The adjusted age is stored for reference when taking actions based on the adjusted age, such a component replacement and/or workload placement.

Predicting hardware failures in a server

Systems, methods, and computer program products to perform an operation comprising receiving, by a management console managing a server, a request to perform an operation on the server, determining that performance of the operation is associated with a deterministic failure in the server, and blocking performance of the operation by the management console, thereby preventing an occurrence of the deterministic failure in the server.

Preventing recurrence of deterministic failures

Based on a current activity running on a first selection of components operating in a primary mode from among redundant components within a high availability system, a separate power setting is selected for each separate type of redundant component from among the types of redundant components within the redundant components as specified in a high availability status specified for the current activity. At least one controller interface is called with a request to set the powered state of a particular component that is redundant to at least one of the first selection of components, from among a second selection of components operating in a standby mode from among the redundant components, to the separate power setting for the separate type of redundant component.

Managing power savings in a high availability system at a redundant component level of granularity

An approach for management of boot time of a virtual machine is provided. In one aspect, a system boot time application identifies assigned resources of a virtual I/O server (VIOS) of a computing system. In addition, the system boot time application allocates additional resources from client logical partitions (LPARs) of the computing system to the assigned resources of VIOS during boot time of VIOS. The system boot time application further identifies cores of the computing system during the boot time of VIOS. The system boot time application also sets the cores in turbo core mode until boot time of VIOS is completed. In one aspect, the system boot time application reallocates the allocated additional resources from VIOS to the client LPARs once boot time of VIOS is completed.

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