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4.5.4 Creating WPARs

To create a WPAR using the Create Workload Partition wizard, complete the following steps:

1. From the Workload Partitions and Hosts page, right-click the system on which you want to

deploy the WPAR. Select Workload Partitions Management  Create workload

partition to start the wizard (Figure 4-18).

Figure 4-18 Create workload partition

Alternatively, you can select the system on which to deploy the WPAR, click Actions, and

select Workload Partitions Management  Create workload partition.

Follow the instructions on each page to complete the wizard.

2. From the Welcome page, click Next (Figure 4-19).

Figure 4-19 Create Workload Partition wizard: Welcome page

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3. On the General page, you specify WPAR type (System or Application), WPAR name, host

name, and whether the WPAR is relocatable (Enable checkpoint) or not (Figure 4-20).

Click Next to proceed.

Figure 4-20 Create Workload Partition wizard: General page

4. On the Devices page, you can specify storage devices from the global environment that

you might want to allocate to the WPAR (Figure 4-21). Click Add to export a storage

device or Next to proceed.

Figure 4-21 Create Workload Partition wizard: Devices page

5. If you click Add to export a storage device to the WPAR, select a valid target and then add

it to the selected list. Click OK to return back to the wizard (Figure 4-22 on page 61).

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Figure 4-22 Adding a storage device to export to the WPAR

6. Specify the device control for the storage device. At least one of the disks must have a

device control setting as rootvg for a WPAR-owned rootvg (Figure 4-23).

Figure 4-23 Create Workload Partition wizard: Specifying the device control setting

7. For system WPARs, on the Filesystems page, you can select the Use private /usr and

/opt option to create a private or detached system WPAR.

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The WPAR’s file systems can be local (on the global environment), NFS-based, or the

WPAR’s file systems are on the WPAR-owned rootvg.

On the Filesystems page, click Configure required filesystems to configure the file

systems for Local filesystems (Figure 4-24), or for NFS based filesystems (Figure 4-25

on page 63) WPAR.

Figure 4-24 Create Workload Partition wizard: Filesystems (local)

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Figure 4-25 Create Workload Partition wizard: Filesystems (NFS-based)

For a rootvg WPAR, the file systems cannot be specified manually. (Figure 4-26).

Figure 4-26 Create Workload Partition wizard: Filesystems (rootvg)

8. Click Next to proceed.

9. On the Options page, you can specify the base directory and other options for the WPAR

(Figure 4-27 on page 64).