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The IBM Hardware Management Console, or HMC, is the appliance that manages IBM Power Systems servers. Its graphical interface provides the functions needed to create and maintain a partitioned environment on a managed system, and a managed system can run several operating systems at once. The HMC carries machine types 7310, 7042 and 7063.

The 7042 and 7310 models are based on base servers that carry their own machine types. The 7310-CR4 and 7042-CR4 use the 7978, the 7310-C06 and 7042-C06 use the 4362, and the 7042-CR5 uses the 7946. The 7042-CR6 uses the 7944, the 7042-CR7 and 7042-CR8 use the 7914, and the 7042-CR9 uses the 5463. The 7310-C05, 7042-CR4, 7042-CR5, 7042-C06 and 7042-C07 carry two restrictions: the parallel port is not used, and more than one hard disk drive is not used.

The 7042-CR7 carries an Intel Xeon E5-2640 at 2.50 GHz with six cores and 8 GB DDR3 RDIMMs at 1333 MHz. The 7042-CR8 carries an E5-2640 at 2.0 GHz with eight cores and 8 GB DDR3 RDIMMs at 1600 MHz. Both take a 550 W AC power supply, a DVD-RW drive and 2.5-inch hot-swap drives. The 7042-CR9 carries an Intel Xeon E5-2620 v3 at 2.4 GHz with six cores, 16 GB DDR4 RDIMMs at 2133 MHz, a media cage for eight 2.5-inch drives and 550 W platinum AC power supplies.

The 7063-CR1 has its own service guide. Its replaceable parts are the disk drive and drive backplane, fans, memory, PCIe adapters, power supplies, system backplane, system processor module, time-of-day battery and USB cable. Its memory is four 8 GB modules of the same type.

On the 7042-CR7, 7042-CR8 and 7042-CR9 the integrated Ethernet port is the primary network connection to the managed server, and the usual layout is a private service DHCP network. Serial 1 supports an external modem, the USB ports take a keyboard, mouse or flash memory, and the parallel and Serial 2 ports are not supported.

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    Hardware Management Console models (5)

    • 7042-CR5: Machine type 7042 HMC on the 7946 base server
    • 7042-CR7: Machine type 7042 HMC on the 7914 base server, Xeon E5-2640 2.50 GHz
    • 7042-CR8: Machine type 7042 HMC on the 7914 base server, Xeon E5-2640 2.0 GHz
    • 7042-CR9: Machine type 7042 HMC on the 5463 base server, Xeon E5-2620 v3
    • 7063-CR1: Machine type 7063 HMC, memory of four 8 GB modules

    Service parts (3)

    • 00Y8375: System board, 7042-CR7 and 7042-CR8
    • 00FJ755: Backplane for four 2.5-inch hard disk drives, 7042-CR9
    • 00E6167: 2.5-inch hot-swap 300 GB 10K hard disk drive, 7042-CR5

    Other models and parts (2)

    • 7042-CR4, 7042-CR6, 7042-C06, 7042-C07, 7042-C08, 7310-CR4, 7310-C05, 7310-C06 and 7063-CR2: Other Hardware Management Console models IBM documents
    • 81Y5166, 00Y2782, 49Y1415, 81Y9727, 94Y7587, 00AJ137, 00AJ142 and 00KF670: Part numbers IBM prints for the 7042-CR7, 7042-CR8 and 7042-CR9 (processors, DIMM, hard disk drives, backplane, media cage)

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