Help on Micro partitioning 2

[murali2104]

Hi,
we are looking for micro partitioning on AIX 5.3;
we have freshly installed AIX 5.3 on a machine.
I have gone through some of the red books but could not find much on this.
I found the following

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1174209&page=1

But I am not sure how to proceed further. we have an arrangement with IBM and i think we need not take any special license for this.

I have NO idea on how to "activate Advanced Virtualization feature"

Do we have any step by step procedure.

Can you please help us?

Thanks,
Murali

 

[madmurdock]

Well, to start over, which kind of machine do you have? POWER4? POWER5? Type?

A little bit more information would be helpful....

mad

Advanced Interactive eXecutable

 

[Gloups]

If you want to have mirco partitioning, even if you dont pay you need to have an APV licence code.

 

[p5wizard]

Micropartitioning (part of APV) only works on p5 and p5+ .

APV is a licensed option you need to have configured and active on the server. If not, you can only create LPARs with dedicated (whole) CPUs.


HTH,

p5wizard

 

[murali2104]

ours is a P5

 

[khalidaaa]

Go to HMC --> right click on the managed system --> choose properties --> go to Capabilities tab --> If your machine is capable of running Micropartitioning you will find 'yes' in front of that option!

otherwise, you will have to pay IBM for that feature! I don't remember the code fot that feature for now.

Regards,
Khalid

 

[khalidaaa]

Go thru this:

http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/p/apv/

Regards,
Khalid

 

[murali2104]

Hi,
Sorry if I am asking a dumb question. How can I open HMC?

 

[khalidaaa]

No its ok, we are all learning.

You will find a box near your P5 machine. This is called the HMC. You need to login with hscroot account over there and then you will see the GUI of it and then you go from there as mentioned above

Regards,
Khalid

 

[p5wizard]

If you don't have an HMC (or IVM - which is in fact an HMC on a factory-predefined LPAR), you won't be able to do any micropartitioning... All you'll have is a full-system partition owning practically all the hardware in your p5 server.

If you don't know about HMC or IVM, perhaps you need to get some education about p5 servers and partioning - or at least get yourself through the IBM redbooks / redpapers / technotes on these topics.

e.g.

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/cgi-bin...5+AND+lpar+or+micropartitioning&SearchOrder=1

HTH,

p5wizard