Requirements for deploying a system plan on the HMC
To use the Hardware Management Console (HMC) to deploy a system plan successfully, you must ensure that your system meets the prerequisite conditions.
To deploy or to create a system plan successfully, you must ensure that your system meets the requirements in the following tables.
| Prerequisite | Description |
|---|---|
| System setup | Delete the logical partition that was provided with your server, and delete any other logical partition that is not in the system plan. For instructions, see Deleting a logical partition. The name of the logical partition that was provided with the server is the serial number of the managed system, and the name of the partition profile is default_profile. |
| Requirements for physical disk I/O adapter | Locate the physical disk I/O adapters that belong
to each logical partition. Verify that the disk drives that are attached
to these physical I/O adapters support the configuration for each
logical partition that you want. The Deploy System Plan Wizard only
validates that the physical disk I/O adapters match the system plan.
It does not validate that the disk drives are configured for the physical
disk I/O adapters. If you are deploying
a system plan that you created in the System Planning Tool (SPT), verify that
all hardware is in the correct location, and that internal drive bays
and external SCSI cables are cabled according to SPT instructions. If
you are deploying a system plan that you created by using the HMC, verify that the hardware
and cabling on the target system is identical to that on the source
system. If the system plan includes a storage area network (SAN) or fibre channel adapters, ensure that the adapters are cabled and that the SAN is configured. |
If you meet all the listed prerequisite conditions and system plan deployment is failing with a specific type of problem, see the troubleshooting topics to determine the possible nature of the problem and potential actions that you can take to resolve it.
