System Plans

Record or import specifications for logical partitions, partition profiles, or hardware specifications on a chosen system.

A system plan is a specification of the logical partition configuration of a single managed system. A system plan is stored in a file that is called a system-plan file and has a file suffix of .sysplan. A system-plan file can contain more than one system plan, although multiple plans in a single file are not common.

The System Plans tasks creates a record of the hardware and partition configuration of a managed system at a given time. It records specifications for the logical partitions and partition profiles on the selected system. It can also record hardware specifications that the HMC is able to detect.

To maximize the information that the HMC can obtain from the managed system, power on the managed system and activate the logical partitions on the managed system before creating the new system plan.

The System Plans tasks are the same tasks that are available from the System Plans node from the navigation pane and are documented here: System Plans.