Planning for hosts

When planning your IBM® Power® Virtualization Center (PowerVC) environment, you need to consider your host management strategy and your I/O management strategy.

Planning for PowerVM hosts
PowerVM® hosts can be managed by PowerVM NovaLink or HMC. Plan appropriately, depending on how you are managing your systems. Starting PowerVC 2.2.0, you can register or add a NovaLink or an HMC host directly into the standby mode.
Compute plane node and HMC host scaling
Compute plane nodes share the compute services load and allow managing more HMC managed hosts.
Host groups
With host groups, also called host aggregates in OpenStack, you can create virtual boundaries around a group of hosts. This lets you logically partition your hosts.

Parent topic: Planning for PowerVC

Related concepts

Planning Shared Ethernet Adapter mapping
Sample configurations
Planning for performance
Single host configuration
SAN storage configuration

Related tasks

Changing a host from HMC managed to NovaLink managed

Related information

IBM System p Advanced POWER Virtualization (PowerVM) Best Practices