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Requirements for creating a system plan on the HMC

To use the Hardware Management Console (HMC) to create a system plan successfully, you need to ensure that your system meets a number of prerequisite conditions.

A system plan that you create by using HMC V7.3.3, or later, contains hardware information that the HMC is able to obtain from the selected managed system. However, the amount of hardware information that the HMC can capture for the new system plan varies based on the method that the HMC uses to gather the hardware information.

The HMC can potentially use two methods: inventory gathering and hardware discovery. For example, when using hardware discovery, the HMC can detect information about hardware that is unassigned to a partition or that is assigned to an inactive partition. Additionally, the HMC can use one or both of these methods to detect disk information for IBM® i logical partitions.

Note: You cannot create system plans on IBM BladeCenter® blade servers.

To create a system plan successfully, you need to ensure that your system meets the following requirements:

If you meet all requirements and system plan creation is failing with a specific type of problem or you are not capturing the type of information that you are expecting to capture, see Troubleshooting system plan creation for the HMC to determine the possible nature of the problem and potential actions that you can take to resolve it.

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Last updated: Thu, October 10, 2013