Preparing for partition mobility

You need to verify that the source and destination systems are configured correctly so that you can successfully migrate the mobile partition from the source system to the destination system. This includes verifying the configuration of the source and destination servers, the Hardware Management Console (HMC), the Virtual I/O Server logical partitions, the mobile partition, the virtual storage configuration, and the virtual network configuration.

  • HMC-managed systems: Preparing the source and destination servers for partition mobility
    You need to verify that the source and destination servers are configured correctly so that you can successfully migrate the mobile partition from the source server to the destination server by using the Hardware Management Console (HMC). This includes tasks such as verifying the logical memory block size of the source and destination servers, and verifying the available memory and processor resources of the destination server.
  • Preparing the HMC for partition mobility
    You need to verify that the Hardware Management Console (HMC) that manage the source and destination servers are configured correctly so that you can migrate the mobile partition from the source server to the destination server.
  • Preparing the source and destination Virtual I/O Server logical partitions for partition mobility
    You must verify that the source and destination Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) logical partitions are configured correctly so that you can successfully migrate the mobile partition from the source server to the destination server by using the Hardware Management Console (HMC). This verification includes tasks such as verifying the version of the VIOS partitions and enabling the mover service partitions (MSPs).
  • HMC-managed systems: Preparing the mobile partition for partition mobility
    You need to verify that the mobile partition is configured correctly so that you can successfully migrate it from the source server to the destination server by using the Hardware Management Console (HMC). This includes tasks such as satisfying adapter requirements and operating system requirements for partition mobility.
  • Preparing the network configuration for partition mobility
    You need to verify that the network configuration is configured correctly so that you can successfully migrate the mobile partition from the source server to the destination server by using the Hardware Management Console (HMC). This includes tasks such as creating a Shared Ethernet Adapter on the source and destination Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) logical partitions and creating at least one virtual Ethernet adapter on the mobile partition.
  • Preparing the virtual Fibre Channel configuration for partition mobility
    You need to verify that the virtual Fibre Channel configuration is configured correctly so that you can successfully migrate the mobile partition from the source server to the destination server by using the Hardware Management Console (HMC).
Parent topic: Live Partition Mobility on HMC-managed systems
Related concepts:
Partition mobility overview for HMC
Partition mobility environment
Related information:
Live Partition Mobility Setup Checklist


Last updated: Tue, March 12, 2019