Creating a system profile

You can create a system profile using the Hardware Management Console (HMC). A system profile is an ordered list of partition profiles. When you activate a system profile, the managed system attempts to activate the partition profiles in the system profile in the order in which the partition profiles are listed.

System profiles are also useful for validating your partition profiles to ensure that you have not overcommitted the resources on your managed system.

Restriction: You cannot create system profiles that contain logical partitions that use shared memory.
To create a system profile using the HMC, follow these steps:
  1. In the navigation pane, open Systems Management and click Servers.
  2. In the work pane, select the managed system, click the Tasks button, and click Configuration > Manage System Profiles.

    The HMC Classic interface is not supported in Hardware Management Console (HMC) Version 8.7.0, or later. The functions that were previously available in the HMC Classic interface are now available in the HMC Enhanced+ interface.

    When the HMC is at version 8.7.0, or later, complete the following steps view the Manage System Profiles page:
    1. In the navigation pane, click the Resources icon The icon represents the Resources function of the HMC.
    2. Click All Systems. The All Systems page is displayed.
    3. In the work pane, select the system and click Actions > View System Properties. The Properties page is displayed.
    4. Select the system and click System Actions > Legacy > Manage System Profiles.
  3. Click Actions > New.
  4. Enter the name of the new system profile into System profile name.
  5. For each partition profile that you want to add to the system profile, open the logical partition to which the partition profile belongs, select the partition profile, and click Add.
  6. Click OK.
Parent topic: Creating logical partitions


Last updated: Fri, July 05, 2019