Partition mobility overview for HMC

You can learn about the benefits of partition mobility, how the Hardware Management Console (HMC) performs active and inactive partition mobility, and about the configuration that is required to successfully migrate a logical partition from one system to another.

Benefits of partition mobility
Partition mobility provides systems management flexibility and is designed to improve system availability.
Partition mobility process
Learn about how the Hardware Management Console (HMC) migrates an active or inactive logical partition from one server to another server.
Configuration validation for partition mobility
You can learn about the tasks that the Partition Migration wizard on the Hardware Management Console (HMC) performs to validate your system configuration for active and inactive partition mobility.
Logical partition attributes that change after the logical partition migrates to the destination system
When you migrate a logical partition from one server to another, some of its attributes might change (such as the logical partition ID number) and some of its attributes remain the same (such as the logical partition configuration).
Processor compatibility modes
Processor compatibility modes enable you to migrate logical partitions between servers that have different processor types without upgrading the operating environments installed in the logical partitions.
Partition mobility environment
You can learn about each component of the partition mobility environment and its contribution in enabling successful partition mobility. Components of the partition mobility environment include the source and destination servers, the Hardware Management Console (HMC), the source and destination Virtual I/O Server logical partitions, the mobile partition, the networking configuration, and the storage configuration.

Parent topic: Live Partition Mobility on HMC-managed systems

Last updated: Tue, March 12, 2019