How to Delete Service Partition Using Command Line

How To

Summary

Steps to delete service partition by using command line

Objective

This document helps in deleting service partition by using command line in case GUI not working

Environment

These steps are applied for HMC V7 and later versions

Steps

Use the following steps to delete service partition by using HMC command line:

First, get service partition information by running the following commands:

Use this command to list all managed systems names.

# lssyscfg -r sys -F name

Then, substitute the managed system name in the next command to get its service partition information:

# lssyscfg -r sys -m <Managed_System_Name> -F name,service_lpar_id,service_lpar_name

Output would be as follows:
name,service_lpar_id,service_lpar_name
<Managed_System_Name>,1,<Service_Partition_Name>

Second step is to set service partition as unassigned by using the following command:

# chsyscfg -r sys -m <Managed_System_Name> -i "service_lpar_id=none"

Now, run lssyscfg command from the first step again to confirm that service partition got unassigned.

Output would be as follows:
name,service_lpar_id,service_lpar_name
<Managed_System_Name>,none,null

Once service partition got unassigned, it can be deleted by using the following command:

# rmsyscfg -r lpar -m <Managed_System_Name> -n <Service_Partition_Name>

Note: Deleting service partition by using rmsyscfg command without setting it as unassigned generates the following error:

An error occurred while deleting the partition named <Service_Partition_Name>.
HSCL3396 Failed to delete the partition with ID 1 since it is the service partition

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Document Information

More support for:
Hardware Management Console V9

Software version:
All Version(s)

Document number:
6353321

Modified date:
22 September 2021

UID

ibm16353321

IBM Support

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