The System Planning Tool (SPT) helps you design a managed system that can support a specified set of workloads. You can design a managed system based upon workload data from your current systems, based upon new workloads that you want the managed system to support, based upon sample systems that are provided with the utility, or based upon your own custom specifications.
If you make any changes to the hardware assignments or placement in the system, the SPT validates the changes to ensure that the resulting system fulfills the minimum hardware requirements and hardware placement requirements for the logical partitions.
When you are done making changes to the system, you can save your work as a system plan. You can import this file into your Hardware Management Console (HMC) or the management partition for the Integrated Virtualization Manager and deploy the system plan to a managed system that is managed by the HMC or the Integrated Virtualization Manager. When you deploy the system plan, the HMC or the Integrated Virtualization Manager creates the logical partitions from the system plan on the managed system. For more information on system plans, see Creating partitions from a system plan.
To download the SPT, see the IBM® System Planning Tool Web site.
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