What's new in Live Partition Mobility

August 2017

• 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. Multiple topics have been updated to include this information.

October 2016

• The following topics are new for redundant mover service partitions:
  • Verifying that the source or destination server supports redundant mover service partitions
  • Specifying redundant mover service partitions for a partition mobility operation
  • Configuration settings for using redundant mover service partitions

• The following topics were updated for redundant mover service partitions:
  • Configuration validation for partition mobility
  • Source and destination Virtual I/O Server logical partitions in a partition mobility environment
  • HMC-managed systems: Preparing the source and destination servers for partition mobility
  • HMC-managed systems: Firmware support matrix for partition mobility

• The following topics were updated for the virtual Network Interface Controller (vNIC) failover support:
  • Configuration validation for partition mobility
  • Validating the configuration for partition mobility
  • Migrating the mobile partition with HMC

• The following topics were updated for the IBM® Power® System E850C (8408-44E), IBM Power System E880C (9080-MHE), and IBM Power System E870C (9080-MME) servers:
  • HMC-managed systems: Preparing the source and destination servers for partition mobility
  • HMC-managed systems: Firmware support matrix for partition mobility
  • IVM-managed systems: Preparing the source and destination servers for partition mobility
  • IVM-managed systems: Partition mobility firmware support matrix

• The following topic is new for specifying whether NPIV port level or LUN level validation must be used for partition mobility operations:
  • Specifying NPIV disk validation for partition migration validation operations

May 2016

• The following topic is new for the simplified remote restart feature:
  • Simplified remote restart and migration considerations

• The following topic is updated for the simplified remote restart feature:
  • HMC-managed systems: Preparing the source and destination servers for partition mobility

• The following topic is new for the inactive profile policy:
  • Setting the inactive profile policy
• The following topic is updated for the inactive profile policy:
  • Defining the partition profile policy for inactive partition mobility

October 2015

• The following topic is new for the virtual Network Interface Controller (vNIC) adapter:
  • Verifying that the destination server supports vNIC adapters

• The following topics were updated for the virtual Network Interface Controller (vNIC) adapter:
  • Configuration validation for partition mobility
  • HMC-managed systems: Preparing the source and destination servers for partition mobility
  • Validating the configuration for partition mobility
  • Migrating the mobile partition with HMC

• The following topic is new for the concurrency level:
  • The concurrency level attribute

• The following topics were updated for the concurrency level:
  • VIOS configuration and tuning for optimum partition mobility performance
  • Validating the configuration for partition mobility

• The following topic is new for changing the virtual switch name:
  • Verifying that the destination server supports changing the virtual switch name

• The following topics were updated for changing the virtual switch name:
  • HMC-managed systems: Preparing the source and destination servers for partition mobility
  • Migrating the mobile partition with HMC

• The following topic is updated for the PowerVM NovaLink architecture:
  • Live Partition Mobility on HMC-managed systems

• The following topic is new for N_Port ID Virtualization (NPIV) partition migration validation:
  • NPIV LUN or disk level validation

• The following topic is updated for NPIV partition migration validation:
  • Specifying the attributes for a partition mobility operation by using the VIOS

• The Suspend/Resume feature for logical partitions is supported on POWER8® processor-based servers when the firmware is at level FW840, or later.

June 2015

• The following topics were updated for the IBM Power System E850 (8408-E8E) server:
  • HMC-managed systems: Preparing the source and destination servers for partition mobility
  • HMC-managed systems: Firmware support matrix for partition mobility
  • IVM-managed systems: Preparing the source and destination servers for partition mobility

• The following topics were updated for the updated firmware and HMC version:
  • HMC-managed systems: Firmware support matrix for partition mobility
  • IVM-managed systems: Partition mobility firmware support matrix

October 2014

• The following topic is new for the simplified version of the remote restart capability:
  • Verifying that the destination server supports partitions that are capable of the simplified version of the remote restart feature
• The following topics were updated for the simplified version of the remote restart capability:
  • Configuration validation for partition mobility
  • HMC-managed systems: Preparing the source and destination servers for partition mobility
  • Preparing the HMC for partition mobility

• The following topics were updated for the 9080-MHE and 9119-MHE (IBM Power System E880 and IBM Power System E880C) and 9080-MME and 9119-MME (IBM Power System E870C) servers :
  • HMC-managed systems: Preparing the source and destination servers for partition mobility
  • HMC-managed systems: Firmware support matrix for partition mobility
  • IVM-managed systems: Partition mobility firmware support matrix

• The following topic is new for the first-failure data capture (FFDC) data collection for partition mobility failures:
  • First-failure Data Capture for partition mobility failures

• The following topic is new for VIOS configuration for optimum partition mobility performance:
  • VIOS configuration and tuning for optimum partition mobility performance

June 2014

Added information for IBM Power Systems™ servers that contain the POWER8 processor.