System plan validation for the HMC

You deploy a system plan to a system that is managed by a Hardware Management Console (HMC) managed system by using the System Plan Deployment Wizard. The wizard validates the information in the system plan against the configuration of the managed system before beginning the deployment process.

The Deploy System Plan wizard validates the system plan before deployment to ensure that it can be deployed successfully. The wizard validates the system plan in two phases. The first phase of the validation process is hardware validation. During this phase, the wizard validates that the processors, memory, and I/O adapters that are available on the managed system match or exceed those that the system plan specifies. The wizard also validates that the hardware placement on the managed system matches the hardware placement that the system plan specifies.

The second phase of the validation process is partition validation. During this phase, the wizard validates that the logical partitions on the managed system match the logical partitions in the system plan.

If any step in the partition validation process fails for the system plan, validation of the entire system plan fails.