Managing system properties

You can change the properties of the selected managed system and view the capabilities that are supported by the managed system.

1. In the navigation area, click and expand System resources.
2. Click Systems.
3. In the work pane, click a system name. The System Settings tab is displayed with the following sections:
   1. Click General Properties to expand the section. You can view and change the general system properties system's name, location, description, assigned service partition (if designated), power-off setting, and group tags. You can view only the IP address, reference code, machine type, serial number, managed system firmware, default configuration, uptime, and the maximum number of partitions that can be defined on the server.
   2. Click Save to apply the changes. Alternatively, click Cancel to reject the changes and close the page.
   3. Click Migration to expand the section and view or change the partition mobility properties and change the migration policy for inactive partitions on the managed system.
      • Select one of the following policies that you want to use when you migrate inactive partitions.
        • Partition Configuration: Configures the management console to use the partition state that is defined for the logical partition when you migrate an inactive partition. If the inactive partition cannot start automatically, the management console uses the configuration data that is defined for the partition in the last activated profile.
        • Last Activated Profile: Configures the management console to use the memory and processor configuration data that is defined in the last activated profile for the partition when you migrate an inactive logical partition.
      • If you are using Hardware Management Console (HMC) version 10.3.1061.0 or later, select one of the following NPIV validation policies that you want to validate the migration of the active partition.
        • Port validation only: Configures the management console to validate only the NPIV (N Port Id Virtualization) port when you validate the migration of an active partition.
        • Port and Disk validation: Configures the management console to validate both NPIV port and disk when you validate the migration of an active partition.
          Note: If you have specified the NPIV validation value explicitly as part of the validation process for the partition migration operation then this NPIV Validation Policy value that you have selected is not considered. For more information, see Validating and migrating the mobile partition by using HMC Version 10.3.1050, or later
      • Select Allow Migration with Inactive Source Storage VIOS to perform Live Partition Mobility (LPM) when the source Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) that is hosting the storage adapters is powered off or shutdown. If you enable this feature, the storage configuration-related data is collected for all client partitions based on the CEC-level preference. The collected data is used to perform LPM on the powered off VIOS.
      • View the migration capabilities table to see information about the type of migration that is supported, number of migrations in progress, and number of migrations that are supported by the managed system.
   4. Click Save to apply the changes. Alternatively, click Cancel to reject the changes and close the page.
   5. Click Power On Parameters to expand the section.
      You can change the power-on parameters for the next system restart by changing the values in the Next Value fields. The Current Value field displays the value that was used when the system was last restarted. You can change the value for the partition start policy, power-on side, keylock position, IBM® i IPL source, and AIX®/Linux® boot mode. The changed value takes effect after the next system restart.
   6. Click Save to apply the changes. Alternatively, click Cancel to reject the changes and close the page.
   7. Click Advanced to expand the section.
      You can view or change the settings for Barrier Synchronization Register (BSR), huge page memory, processor performance, memory mirroring, memory optimization, Virtual Trusted Platform Module (VTPM)-enabled partitions, and supported hardware accelerator types for the managed system. The Nutanix hardware accelerator has a total of 32 hardware accelerator types. Currently, only the GZIP co-processor type is supported. You can increase the amount of available mirrored memory on the system and perform defragmentation operation, by using the Memory Optimization Tool.
   8. Click Save to apply the changes. Alternatively, click Cancel to reject the changes and close the page.
4. In the navigation pane, click Processor, Memory, I/O to view the memory, processor, and physical I/O resource settings for the managed system. In the Memory pane, you can view the current memory region size and also change the value for the memory region size by changing the value in the New value (After System Restart) field . The new value is applied after you restart the system. You can click I/O Pools to display all the I/O pools available in the managed system. The maximum number of I/O pools that are allowed is 1000.
   Note: If you are using HMC Version 10.3.1050, or later, and firmware level FW1050, or later, the HMC supports 1 GB, 2GB, and 4 GB of Logical Memory Block (LMB) sizes.
5. Click Save to apply the changes. Alternatively, click Cancel to reject the changes and close the page.