Disabling Live Partition Mobility

You can disable the Live Partition Mobility feature of a logical partition by using the Hardware Management Console (HMC).

1. In the navigation pane, click Resources.
2. Click All Systems. The All Systems page is displayed.
3. In the work pane, select the partition for which you want to disable the Live Partition Mobility feature and click Actions > View Partition Properties.
4. In the Properties area, click Properties > General Properties.
5. Click the Advanced tab and in the Advanced settings area, select the Disable Migration check box.
6. Click Save.
   Some Independent Software Vendors might require you to purchase a license for all systems where their application can be migrated. Rather than disabling the Live Partition Mobility feature at a system level, IBM provides this logical partition level mechanism that can be audited, to disable migration to address ISV licensing requirements while preserving the ability to leverage migration for applications running on other logical partitions on the system.

   Note: IBM software does not stipulate such licensing requirements.

   The Disable Migration option is supported on all firmware versions, and when the system is managed by an HMC that is at version 8.4.0, or later. Also, you can run the chsyscfg command with a value 1 for the migration_disabled attribute, from the HMC command line. To disable the Live Partition Mobility feature of a logical partition during partition creation, run the mksyscfg command with a value 1 for the migration_disabled attribute, from the HMC command line. The Disable Migration option is also supported by the Representational State Transfer (REST) application programming interfaces (APIs).
   Note: PowerVM® NovaLink supports the Disable Migration option when the system is co-managed by an HMC. However PowerVM NovaLink does not provide an option to disable Live Partition Mobility feature.