Adding machines to a HMC 2

[phorbiuz]

Hi

Can anyone give me the steps needed to add new machines to an existing HMC? I have done this once before, but it was quite a while back and I don't recall now.

We currently have a HMC managing 2 P570's, which in turn are split into other lpars. In the same area of the room we have some other P660's acting as individual machines already running AIX and configured on the network. I'd like to get these under the HMC control, just to ease management.

Thanks.

 

[MoreFeo]

I think p660 is POWER4, and your HMC is for POWER5 or POWER6 (p570) and cannot manage POWER4.

 

[p5wizard]

If you still have a power4 HMC (HMC V3.3), you can attach and manage your p660 server from there. You need a special serial cable and a free serial port on that HMC to connect to.

p5 and p6 servers are connected via ethernet to a p5/p6 HMC (minimal level for p5 HMC V6, for p6 it is HMC V7)


HTH,

p5wizard

 

[khalidaaa]

More info on HMC choice!

http://www-941.ibm.com/collaboration/wiki/display/WikiPtype/HMC+attached+System+Setup

Regards,
Khalid

 

[Dutch01]

I have HMC version 7.2 with several I-Series connected.
I connected one AIX Server, when I try to open a console window this works fine but I CAN'T TYPE ANY TEXT!!??
So I can't type user and password and work with the console.
Does anybody knows what the solution for my problem??

Tanx!!!!

 

[MoreFeo]

Maybe the AIX server is in MDC mode (Manufacturer Default Configuration). This happens when buying the server without HMC, it only has one LPAR that uses all the resources and by default it uses the integrated serial as console, not the virtual one from the HMC.

If this is the case you must power off the LPAR and then power it on changing MDC to LPAR mode (it is explained in the power on pop-up menu). It may happen that when you power off the LPAR the entire chasis is also powered off, in this case you must first power on the chasis but indicating LPAR stand-by mode, so the LPAR doesn't boot automatically.