You can activate a partition profile by using the Hardware Management Console (HMC). When you activate
a partition profile, you activate a logical partition. The system
commits resources to the logical partition based on the configuration
in the partition profile and starts the operating system or software
that is installed on the logical partition.
When you activate a logical partition by activating
a partition profile, you must select a partition profile. A partition
profile is a record on the HMC that specifies a possible
configuration for a logical partition.
If
you plan to activate a logical partition that uses virtual resources
provided by the Virtual I/O Server,
you must first activate the Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) logical partition
that provides the virtual resources.
If you plan to activate a logical partition that
uses shared memory (hereafter referred to as a shared memory
partition), you must first activate at least one VIOS logical partition
that meets the following criteria:
- The VIOS logical
partition (hereafter referred to as a paging VIOS partition)
must provide access to an available paging space device that meets
the size requirements of the shared memory partition.
- The paging VIOS partition must be assigned to the shared memory
pool.
If the shared memory
partition is configured with redundant paging VIOS partitions, activate
both paging VIOS partitions
before you activate the shared memory partition.
When you activate a shared memory partition
and the shared memory pool does not contain enough physical memory
required for activation, you can release to the hypervisor the physical
memory that is currently assigned to other shared memory partitions
that are shut down. The hypervisor can then assign the released physical
memory to the shared memory partition that you want to activate.
When the partition profile contains a cable card,
the partition activation fails. You must remove the cable card from
the profile before you activate the logical partition, because a slot
that contains a cable card cannot be partitioned.
To activate a partition profile by using the HMC, follow these steps:
- In the navigation pane, open ,
and click the system on which the logical partition is located.
- In the work pane, select the logical partition that you
want to activate.
- From the Tasks menu, click .
The HMC Classic interface is
not supported in Hardware Management Console (HMC) Version 8.7.0, or later. The functions that were previously
available in the HMC Classic interface are now available in
the HMC Enhanced+ interface.
When the
HMC is at version 8.7.0, or later,
complete the following steps to activate a partition profile:
- In the navigation pane, click the Resources icon
.
- Click All Partitions. Alternatively, click All
Systems. In the work pane, click the server name that has the logical partition. Click
View System Partitions. The All Partitions page is displayed.
- In the work pane, select the logical partition and click .
- In the Managed Profiles page, select a profile and click .
- If you want to install the VIOS software as part of
the activation process of a logical partition, complete the following
steps:
- Click Yes as the value for the Install
Virtual I/O Server as part of activation process field.
- Select the partition profile that you want to use to
activate the logical partition.
- Click OK. The Discovering
Network Adapters window is displayed because it might
take some time to load the network adapters.
- On the Install Virtual I/O Server page,
select the VIOS installation
source, and complete the required fields.
- Click OK. The installation
progress pane displays the status of the VIOS installation in the
progress bar. To view the details about the progress of the installation,
click the Details tab.
- Click Close. A message
is displayed that the VIOS installation
was successful. If you selected NIM Server as
the installation source, the NIM installation starts after you click Close in
the installation progress pane. To view the progress of the NIM installation
from a virtual terminal, click Popup Console.
When the NIM installation is complete, a message is displayed that
the installation was successful.
- Click OK.
Note: If the Install Virtual I/O Server as part of
activation process option fails repeatedly and the Installation
of Virtual I/O Server failed. Please contact the system administrator message
is displayed, you must type the installios -u command
from the HMC command
line to continue with the installation.
- If you want the HMC to
open a terminal window or console session for the logical partition
when the logical partition is activated, click Open a terminal
window or console session.
Note: This
option is disabled when you select Yes as the
value for the Install Virtual I/O Server as part of activation
process field.
- If you want to use a keylock position, boot mode, or paging VIOS redundancy configuration that
is different from the keylock position, boot mode,
or paging VIOS redundancy
configuration that is specified in the partition profile, complete
the following steps:
- Click Advanced.
- Select the desired keylock position, boot mode, or paging VIOS redundancy configuration.
- Click OK.
- Click OK. If the logical partition that you want to activate
is a shared memory partition and there is not enough physical memory
in the shared memory pool by which to activate the shared memory partition,
the Release Memory Resources window is displayed.
- Select shared memory partitions that are
shut down until the available memory is equal to or greater than the
requested memory and click OK.