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A couple of weeks ago we streamed installing the mainframe in the datacenter from scratch. When we arrived the only thing that was there was the mainframe itself, some power cables, a fiber drop for Internet, and some shelves. Nothing was connected together. Being a datacenter it is of course noisy from all the fans, so I am not surprised that streaming with sound did not work out. Never-the-less it seems like at least some folks enjoyed the stream. Given that the stream content is somewhere around 12 hours, I figured a written walk-through of what we connected and why is in order. This is it. The main connections you will need to your mainframe are: Power Fibre Channel (FICON and/or FCP) Ethernet Fiber Ethernet Copper (Management) Power Power has already been covered in the Powering the mainframe article with the notable update that connecting both power cables for some reason trips the fuse in the datacenter. The manual says this: Depending on the server configurat

I want to try something I have never done before. I will stream setting up the mainframe. Ok, let's try this. Stream for setting up the mainframe is going to be at twitch.tv/mainframedev . I aim to start tomorrow (Sat) at 13:00 CEST / 11:00 Z. It's going to be recorded as well. Tune in and chat with me and my friend soundgoof when we install a mainframe from scratch. — Christian Svensson (@blueCmd) August 9, 2019 As I mentioned it will be recorded and I will post the uploaded videos here after the fact unless something catastrophic happens. Update: The stream was successful! You can watch the recording here: