IBM PowerVM Getting Started Guide

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IBM Redbooks, Dec 4, 2012 - Computers - 104 pages

IBM® PowerVM® virtualization technology is a combination of hardware and software that supports and manages virtual environments on IBM POWER5, POWER5+, POWER6®, and POWER7® processor-based systems. These systems are available on IBM Power SystemsTM and IBM BladeCenter® servers as optional editions, and are supported by the IBM AIX®, IBM i, and Linux operating systems. With this set of comprehensive systems technologies and services, you can aggregate and manage resources with a consolidated, logical view.

By deploying PowerVM virtualization and IBM Power Systems, you can take advantage of the following benefits:


  • Lower energy costs through server consolidation
  • Reduced cost of your existing infrastructure
  • Better management of the growth, complexity, and risk of your infrastructure

This IBM RedpaperTM publication is a quick start guide to help you install and configure a complete PowerVM virtualization solution on IBM Power Systems. It highlights how to use the following management console interfaces to configure PowerVM:

  • Integrated Virtualization Manager (IVM)
  • Hardware Management Console (HMC)
  • Systems Director Management Console (SDMC)

This paper also highlights advanced configuration of a dual Virtual I/O Server setup.

This paper targets new customers who need assistance with quickly and easily installing, configuring, and starting a new PowerVM server in a virtualized environment.

 

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assigned attr Available IBM MPIO Base-TX PCI-Express Adapter check box Click OK client partition client storage client virtual complete the following complete these steps Configuring a VIOS connected create the virtual default device name DLPAR DS4800 Array Disk dual VIOS configuration dual VIOS setup Dynamic Logical Partitioning ent0 ent4 EtherChannel Example fcs0 fcs1 Fibre Channel adapter following command following steps grep grep ent hdisk6 IBM IBM IBM IBM MPIO DS4800 IBM Power Installing a VIOS interface Link Aggregation Linux List locate the host logical partition LPAR lsdev dev lsdev type lsdev vpd LUN ID MPIO DS4800 Array network switches NPIV physical disk POWER6 SAN LUN SDMC environment SEA failover second VIOS select Actions Select the check single VIOS storage administrator storage pool TCP/IP update vhost0 VIOS virtual server VIOS1 and VIOS2 Virtual Adapters panel virtual disk virtual Ethernet adapter virtual Fibre Channel virtual SCSI adapter virtual server WWPN

Bibliographic information

TitleIBM PowerVM Getting Started Guide
AuthorsScott Vetter, Ben Castillo, Brad Ford, Eduardo Otubo, Pavel Pokorný, IBM Redbooks
PublisherIBM Redbooks, 2012
ISBN0738450677, 9780738450674
Length104 pages
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Computers / Distributed Systems / General
  
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