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Changing a physical volume for a VIOS logical partition using the HMC

You can use the Hardware Management Console (HMC) to view the properties of the physical volumes on your managed system, as well as to start physical volume management tasks.

A physical volume can be a hard disk or a logical device on a storage area network (SAN). You can either assign a physical volume directly to a logical partition, or you can add a physical volume to a storage pool and create virtual disks to assign to logical partitions from the storage pool.
To change physical volumes, be sure you meet the following requirements:
  • The Hardware Management Console must be at version 7 release 3.4.2 or later.
  • The Virtual I/O Server must be at version 2.1.1.0 or later.
  • Ensure that there is a resource monitoring and control connection between the Hardware Management Console and the Virtual I/O Server.

To view and to modify physical volumes, complete the following steps in the Hardware Management Console:

  1. In the navigation area, expand Systems Management > Servers, and select the server on which the Virtual I/O Server logical partition is located.
  2. In the Tasks pane, click Configuration > Virtual Resources > Virtual Storage Management. The Virtual Storage Management page is displayed.
  3. Select a Virtual I/O Server logical partition.
  4. Click the Physical Volumes tab to display a list of physical volumes on the managed system.
  5. Select the physical volume from the table that you want to change. If a physical volume is defined as a paging space device and is assigned to a shared memory pool, it is dedicated to providing this function and is not available for any other purpose. Consequently, such a physical volume is not listed here.
  6. From the Select Action menu bar of the Physical Volumes table, select the storage management task that you want to perform:
    • Properties to view or change the properties of the selected physical volume.
    • Modify partition assignment to change the logical partition to which the selected physical volume is assigned, or to set the physical volume so it is not assigned to any logical partition.
    • Add to storage pool to add the selected physical volume to a storage pool.
    • Remove from storage pool to remove the selected physical volume from the selected storage pool.
Parent topic: Managing virtual resources for Virtual I/O Server logical partitions using the HMC

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Last updated: Thu, September 20, 2018