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Old 01-10-2012
New to aix virtualization direction ?
picked up a 9111-520 p5 hardware recently with 8 Gig of RAM, lots of internal disk space...6 x 140 gig

had 7.1 pre-installed, and managed to upgrade the firmware to latest SF240_xxxx

goal is to virtualize this and have LPARs running aix 7.1, 6.x, and Rhat for ppc ..

need some directions and advices ??

from what I have read, you must put the VIO server on hdisk0 , and ha ve either IVM or HMC installed, in order to create and/or manage LPARs..?? Smilie
# 2  
Old 01-10-2012
Yes, you need an HMC to manage LPAR's. The HMC connects to your Pseries hosts via an out-of-band ethernet network and monitors the hardware as well as facilitating LPAR management.
Padow
# 3  
Old 01-10-2012
LPAR on aix 7.1
so, you are saying , I don't need VIO Server in order to create and manage LPARs..

I just need HMC..
# 4  
Old 01-10-2012
you need vio server to virtualize hardware (adapters, storage) - while IVM or HMC are managing the lpars (cpu, memory, IO allocation). On a 520 you probably want to virtualize adapters when you want to create more than 1-2 lpars as the amount of slots is pretty limited and I doubt you have any IO expansion drawers.
Regards
zxmaus
# 5  
Old 01-10-2012
Network p520 vio..
so I would need vio server to be installed in to a bootable disk like hdisk0 or hdisk1, since PCI slots are limited, if I wanted to play with multiple LPARS,

hdisk0 was pre-installed with AIX 7.1

I did one VIO server installed on hdisk1, and try to bootup the VIO server, but comes up with an error saying something like a partition host is required,

the installation seemed to be done correctly...
# 6  
Old 01-11-2012
you need to create an lpar to install the vio server - for that you need IVM or HMC - than you can create more lpars and allocate virtual resources like virtual storage or virtual adapters to them.

You cannot install the vio into an unpartitioned frame as this doesnt make any sense. And this is pretty much what the system tells you during startup.
# 7  
Old 01-11-2012
Bug IVM on p520
did some further reading on this ,

and thought that IVM installation is part of VIO installation..

I wonder if this IVM thing has been re-installed already on my hdisk0, with aix 7.1 installed..all I have to do is to run some commands to enable it..it is a web-based app through a browser ??

correct me if I am wrong ??

I need to play with some virutalization things on this:

a) IVM install
b) create some kind of partition using IVM, to house the VIO Server
c) install VIO
d) use IVM gui to manage and/or create further LPARs
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