PowerVM, formerly known as Advanced Power Virtualization (APV), is a chargeable feature of IBM POWER5, POWER6, POWER7, POWER8, and POWER9 servers and is required for support of micro-partitions and other advanced features. Support is provided for IBM i, AIX and Linux. In order for a system to be VIO Server capable for use on an HMC-managed system, it must have at least the Standard PowerVM code. Systems with the Express PowerVM code are non-HMC managed only but can be used for Integrated Virtualization Manager (IVM) with up to three partitions on the server.
PowerVM Editions (Formerly Advanced POWER Virtualization - APV) comes in three options:
Express, Standard, Enterprise. How do you know which one you have when reviewing the VET code on the POD website?
How to decode VET Code ( POWERVM VIOS IVM )
As mentioned, PowerVM Edition is available in three options:
-> Express
-> Standard
-> Enterprise
Use bits 25-28 from the VET code listed on the website. Here are examples of
The highlighted values are as follows:
If you are using HMC from HMC GUI, when you run server Properties in Capabilites TAB you can see:
Difference between PowerVM & PowerKVM
PowerVM supports all PowerLinux distributions as guests (aka virtual machines, aka VMs) on all Power Systems including the PowerLinux systems 812L, 822L, and the non-GPU 824L. PowerVM 2.2.3.5 supports both BE and LE distributions, with LE only enabled on POWER8 systems. PowerVM 2.2.3.5 will support AIX, IBM i, RedHat 6, 7, SLES 11, 12, Fedora, Open S- USE, and Ubuntu, all simultaneously, in different virtual machines (aka LPARS). PowerVM 2.2.3.5 will also require hardware microcode level 830 to be installed. (And, at this time with the 830.0 release, if you install 830, that will exclude support of OPAL, so you cannot switch back and forth.... but, more on that in a couple of paragraphs.) If the PowerVM virtualization environment is earlier than 2.2.3.5, then only BE Linux distribution are supported (hence, no Ubuntu nor SLES 12 nor RH 7.1 LE).
hello
P6 was managed by HMC, tried to install on it VIOS 2.2.6
and got this error message
Hosting requires a hosting partition -- boot not permitted
vios-4 - imgbb.com
then after creating an lpar in HMC got this message
B2001230
vios-3 - imgbb.com
anyone know how to solve this... (3 Replies)
Hello,
After installing on P6 which is POWERVM IVM VIOS enabled (VET CODE D21C77ACD9229817CA1F00002C10004164 )
i get this message
"I/O hosting requires a hosting partition - boot not permitted".
HMC was connected to the machine
then HMC was removed through ASMI
Searching on... (2 Replies)
Hi There,
I have zero information and zero knowledge for IBM virtual machine except Amazon cloud and VMware ESXi (Only Linux OS available).
Anyone could provide me the following answer -
Can IBM VM been deploy on X86 and X64 (Intel Chip)?
If answer is yes any chance to deploy AIX OS... (13 Replies)
Hi All,
I have a p520 box running 3 LPARs, 1 x VIOS, 1 x AIX 6.1 and 1 x AIX 7.1 and no HMC, all configuration is performed via VIOS/IVM
Until recently the box did not have the AIX7.1 LPAR and everything was fine with the box.
We needed to use AIX 7.1 for a new project, so I created a... (11 Replies)
I am facing problems in moving CD-ROM from one lpar to another.
CDROM can be seen on the POWERVM (IVM) server , but through the web-access if I move it ( assign it ) to LPAR it will be assigned. I run cfgmgr , and the cdrom does not show up in the LPAR. I firmly believe this is the reason why I... (2 Replies)
Hello,
I installed PowerVM IVM Virtual I/O on P-550 but later found out that the machine isn't activated for CoD VET code for virtualization.
So when booted , it goes into OPEN Firmware
I/O Hosting requires a hosting partition boot not permitted exit called
> ok
Panel shows > IO... (3 Replies)
Hi,
When I try to login on my vios ivm website http://vios through the browser -- all three of them -- firefox , chrome , Internet Explorer , i get this error
http://vioserver/j_security_check
I have java installed on the machine from where i am trying to open up the IVM/VIOS webpage.
I... (2 Replies)
Hello
I have a system with four AIX 5L V5.3 partitions and a Virtual I/O server, connected to a a DS4800 storage array.
Now the company bought another DS4800... i made raid on it... and now i wanna give LUN's to the VIOS, so i can use in one of AIX partitions...
Someone can help me?
... (5 Replies)