HMC, i5, FSP, firmware: I really need to understand all this It’s no longer just an AS/400. If you are using partitions or thinking about partitioning your i5, there are a lot of new concepts to understand. In this presentation, we will dissect what all the pieces are, how they connect to each other, what you need to do to set them up, and Learn how the various components of Hardware Management Console, the Flexible Service Processor, Advanced Systems Management Interface, the i5, what is the firmware, and where does SLIC fall into all this. You need to understand how everything fits together in order to manage them.