Converting a system plan to System Planning Tool format

You can use the System Planning Tool (SPT) Conversion Wizard to convert a system plan, which you created on an Hardware Management Console (HMC) or by using the Integrated Virtualization Manager (IVM), to the format that the SPT uses for system plans.

After you export a system plan from the HMC or from the IVM, you are ready to convert that system plan into the format that the System Planning Tool uses.

Before you use the SPT Conversion Wizard, be sure that you have the information you collected as described in Preparing for system plan conversion. Some of the information that you collect can help you minimize potential conversion limitations.

There are two parts to the conversion process. First, you convert the system-plan file to the SPT format by using the wizard. Second, you complete the conversion by handling any messages or warnings that you receive in the SPT.

Using the SPT Conversion Wizard to convert a system plan

After you gather the necessary information, complete these steps to convert the system plan:

Open the System Planning Tool.
On the Getting Started page, click Open an existing system plan. The Open System Plan window appears.
In the File name field, enter the name of the system plan you want to open in the SPT, or click Browse to select the system-plan file from the local file system.
Click OK. The Work with Planned Systems page appears with a message to indicate that you must convert the file to SPT format before you can use the SPT to edit it.
Click Convert to convert the system-plan file to SPT format. The Overview page of the Conversion Wizard appears.
Click Next to continue with the wizard. The System Attributes page opens.
Note: From the System Attributes page, and many others in the wizard, you can save your selections by clicking Save as Draft. The wizard saves the selections that you have made, but does not create a system-plan file because the conversion process is not complete. If you exit the wizard before converting the system plan and restart the wizard at a later time, your pious selections are displayed on the appropriate pages as you progress through the wizard.
As necessary, specify the Processor feature, Server feature, and Edition feature of your system, and click Next. If your processor feature supports multiple system units, the Additional system units page appears.
If your processor feature has multiple system units that support different processor features, select the Processor Feature that you want to associate with each system unit, and click Next. If your system in your plan supports different backplanes, the Backplane page appears.
If your system supports multiple backplanes, select the appropriate backplane for your system and click Next. The Partitions page appears.
Select the logical partitions that you want to include in the converted system plan and, if necessary, select the profile name and operating system for each selected logical partitions. By default, all logical partitions are selected to be included in the converted system plan. If a logical partition has more than one profile associated with it, you must select the profile that you want to include with this logical partition in the converted system plan. A logical partition can have only one profile associated with it in the SPT. If the SPT is unable to determine the operating system for the logical partition, select the operating system as well.
Click Next. If you have double-high expansion units, the Expansion Units page appears.
If the system has double-high expansion units, match the bottom part of each expansion unit with the corresponding top part of each unit, and click Next. You can use the serial numbers of the units to do this. If the wizard is unable to identify some adapters in the system plan, the Adapters page appears.
Select the location of the adapter that you want to identify, and click Identify to select from a list of identification choices for the adapter in the selected location. You also can select Group similar for the list of adapters. This option groups those adapters that have the same set of possible feature code choices into a single group so that you can select all members of the group for identification. The Identify Adapters page appears.
Select the adapter from a list of possible choices or click Advanced lookup to look up the adapter by FRU, CCIN, part number, or feature number. If you need help finding the FRU, CCIN, part number, or feature number, click Help to get instructions on how to find that information by using operating system commands.
When you have identified the adapter in selected location, click OK to return to the Adapters page and identify additional adapters, as necessary.
Note: The wizard deletes from the system plan any adapters that you do not identify.
Click Next. The Summary page appears.
Verify that the information on the summary page is accurate and click Finish. If you need to change any of the information, click Back to return to the relevant pages in the wizard and make corrections. The Work with Planned Systems page appears.

At this point, you have finished with the SPT Conversion Wizard. The SPT renames your original system-plan file by adding –converted to the end of the original file name. The next step is to handle any messages that the SPT provides about conversion results.

Important: Do not exit the converted system-plan file until you handle messages. If you close the system-plan file now, you can no longer view the messages from the conversion.

Handling conversion messages

When you finish using the Conversion Wizard, you must do additional configuration before your plan is valid in the System Planning Tool (SPT). To see the messages from the conversion and understand what the SPT did when it converted the file, click the link for the system plan name at the top of the Work with Planned Systems page. When you click this link, the System Plan Messages page shows what the SPT did with the hardware parts that it was not able to identify in your original system-plan file. For more information about the type of hardware you can expect to be in the converted system plan, see Limitations of system plan conversion.

Important: After you save and exit your converted system plan-file, these messages are lost, so do not exit the converted file until you address these messages.

Messages with an exclamation point icon indicate that the SPT was not able to identify a part or was not able to interpret what to do with a part from your original system plan. You need to add the specified part manually into the converted plan.

Messages with an informational icon indicate that the SPT placed or configured a part based on the data it had available to it. You need to iew these instances to be sure the information is correct.