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IVM to HMC Migration - a Customer's Experience

AnthonyEnglish Visits (5871)

In September 2009 Rob McNelly wrote on his AIXChange blog about Migrating from the IVM to the HMC . I have documented my own experience of this procedure. You can download it from here , at a very affordable price of USD 0.00 (no refunds). The IVM or Integrated Virtualization Manager, is a browser interface to the VIO server on smaller systems, and it has HMC-like functionality, such as Dynamic LPAR, the ability to configure LPARs, stop and start them and so on. The HMC (Hardware Management Console, as you know) is able to manage several... [More]

Tags: integrated_virtualization... sea ethernet management lpar ivm virtual id shared outage rob_mcnelly hmc v7.3.5.0 dlpar power server aix adapter ibm hardware_management_conso... migration

Cancel that outage: we'll use the HMC

AnthonyEnglish Visits (3120)

PREVENTING SPOF ATTACKS When you think about it, our first job is to keep our systems up and running. Or at least walking, crawling, even staggering. But keep them up we must. The mail must get through, the system must stay up. We build redundancy at all sorts of levels into our systems because we want to avoid that dreaded disease known as SPOF - the Single Point of Failure. Outages are expensive Unscheduled outages bring your computer system to its knees. They can have similar effects on your nervous system. There is the... [More]

Tags: mpio ibm hardware_management_conso... virtual_io dual_vios integrated_virtualization... hmc concurrent spof multi_path failover firmware shared_ethernet_adapter sea scheduled_outage aix vio ivm single_point_of_failure redundance dual_vio_server

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IVM to HMC Migration - a Customer's Experience

Cancel that outage: we'll use the HMC