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we dont use IVM in my company so I am not a specialist ...

anyways ... there is a redbook that seems to explain pretty detailed what you need to do to get yourself going ...

Regards
zxmaus

Yes IVM is a part of VIO when you install on a low end machine, usually you put the VIO DVD in the drive and turn the machine on. It should guide you from there. Hiwever as the machine has been used you'll need to reset it to factory defaults.

You do need a VIO enabled machine in order to do this. Its a separate licence that is referenced by the machines Serial Number.

Check the redbook that zxmaus gave you a link to, that should explain the process, 2.1 for the reset and 2.4 to set the VIO enabled code

so every machine p520 does get a valid VIO license I am hearing..

as for HMC, usually it comes with a x86 console machine, I don't have that kind of luxury, after doing some research, it seems you can installed a bunch of HMC Linux related software on a generic Linux machine and have it connected to the network at the back of this p520's HMC1 and HMC2..

anybody tried it before ??

Yeah, you need a pod code to run IVM, or VIOS if you have an HMC.

Check your serial number here to see if you can even install IVM / VIOS here:
IBM Capacity on Demand: Activation code

If not then you are stuffed unless you buy the licence.

For the HMC machine you'll either have to go and buy one or search other forums because we cannot help you with building an unlicensed HMC here.

went to this..

IBM Capacity on Demand: Activation code

in an attempt to get a code

for my power 5 p520, what do I fill in as a system type ??

I can get the serial # through prtconf -v

IVM and VIO are basically the same thing. The difference is with IVM you do not need an HMC for it to work as the graphical interface used to create LPARs is on the VIO using IVM. Using IVM you can do everything that is possible with a VIO configured system. the main difference is with IVM you can only have one VIO server so there is no reslilience!

For an environment with dual VIO servers and multiple LPARs you will need an HMC and 5 or more internal (or SAN) disks: 2 each for mirrored rootvg on the VIO servers and the remaining disk(s) can be partitioned into client logical volumes and virtualised to the client LPARs using VSCSI devices.

You may check out the below links about PowerVM technologies, how to manage LPARS using HMC, IVM. How to deploy VIO LPAR and how to manage it, etc. everything is detailed in the videos:

developerWorks: Wikis - Systems - Movies

VIO concept:

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/w...ualization/VIO

These should get you started and answer all of your questions as they have answered mine