Book description
The IBM® Hardware Management Console (HMC) provides to systems administrators a tool for planning, deploying, and managing IBM Power Systems™ servers. This IBM Redbooks® publication is an extension of IBM Power Systems HMC Implementation and Usage Guide, SG24-7491 and also merges updated information from IBM Power Systems Hardware Management Console: Version 8 Release 8.1.0 Enhancements, SG24-8232. It explains the new features of IBM Power Systems Hardware Management Console Version V8.8.1.0 through V8.8.4.0. The major functions that the HMC provides are Power Systems server hardware management and virtualization (partition) management.
Further information about virtualization management is in the
following publications:
IBM PowerVM Virtualization Managing and Monitoring,
SG24-7590
IBM PowerVM Virtualization Introduction and Configuration,
SG24-7940
IBM PowerVM Enhancements What is New in 2013,
SG24-8198
IBM Power Systems SR-IOV: Technical Overview and Introduction,
REDP-5065
The following features of HMC V8.8.1.0 through HMC V8.8.4.0 are
described in this book:
HMC V8.8.1.0 enhancements
HMC V8.8.4.0 enhancements
System and Partition Templates
HMC and IBM PowerVM® Simplification Enhancement
Manage Partition Enhancement
Performance and Capacity Monitoring
HMC V8.8.4.0 upgrade changes
Table of contents
- Front cover
- Notices
- IBM Redbooks promotions
- Preface
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Chapter 1. Hardware Management Console overview
- 1.1 Overview of Hardware Management Console (HMC)
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1.2 Enhancements in HMC Version 8
- 1.2.1 Further enhancements to Enhanced+ user interface
- 1.2.2 Virtual storage diagrams
- 1.2.3 NIST support for HMC
- 1.2.4 HMC Virtual Appliance
- 1.2.5 PowerVC NovaLink overview
- 1.2.6 Live Partition Mobility improvements in PowerVM 2.2.4
- 1.2.7 IBM i virtual terminal changes
- 1.2.8 Single root I/O virtualization support
- 1.2.9 vNIC: Introducing PowerVM Virtual Networking Technology
- 1.2.10 Dynamic Partition Remote Restart
- 1.2.11 Absolute value for the partition command-line interface
- 1.2.12 POWER8 processor-based systems support
- 1.2.13 Performance usage metrics
- 1.2.14 Power Integrated Facility for Linux (Power IFL)
- 1.2.15 Save Area improvements
- 1.2.16 Dynamic Platform Optimizer
- 1.2.17 Power Enterprise Pools and the HMC
- 1.2.18 The myHMC application
- 1.3 Hardware Models
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Chapter 2. Planning
- 2.1 System plans
- 2.2 What is new in system plans
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2.3 System planning tool
- 2.3.1 System plan conversion
- 2.3.2 Preparing for system plan conversion
- 2.3.3 Limitations of system plan conversion
- 2.3.4 Work with system plans in the HMC
- 2.3.5 Importing a system plan to the HMC
- 2.3.6 Exporting a system plan from the HMC
- 2.3.7 Creating a system plan on the HMC
- 2.3.8 Viewing a system plan on the HMC
- 2.3.9 Removing a system plan on the HMC
- 2.4 System plans deployment
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2.5 System and partition templates
- 2.5.1 Template types
- 2.5.2 Predefined and custom templates
- 2.5.3 Template overview
- 2.5.4 Template workflow
- 2.5.5 Template contents
- 2.5.6 Accessing templates
- 2.5.7 System templates
- 2.5.8 Viewing a system template
- 2.5.9 Creating a system template
- 2.5.10 Editing a system template
- 2.5.11 Deploying a template
- 2.5.12 Exporting a system template
- 2.5.13 Deleting a system template
- 2.6 Partition templates
- 2.7 Virtualization introduction
- 2.8 Reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) on the HMC
- Chapter 3. Installation upgrade and updates
- Chapter 4. Configuring
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Chapter 5. Operating
- 5.1 User interfaces
- 5.2 Management of the HMC
- 5.3 Console Management
- 5.4 Resource management
- 5.5 Systems Management for Servers
- 5.6 Partition management
- 5.7 Dynamic partitioning
- 5.8 Virtual Network management
- 5.9 Virtual Storage management
- 5.10 Managing hardware-virtualized I/O adapters
- 5.11 Capacity on Demand (CoD)
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Chapter 6. Service support
- 6.1 Overview of menu options
- 6.2 Session handling
- 6.3 Serviceability
- 6.4 Connectivity
- 6.5 Hardware operations
- 6.6 Software maintenance introduction
- 6.7 HMC Data backup
- 6.8 Restoring HMC data
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6.9 Updating, upgrading, and migrating your HMC machine code
- 6.9.1 Determining your HMC machine code version and release
- 6.9.2 Applying machine code updates for the HMC with an Internet connection
- 6.9.3 Applying machine code updates for the HMC using a DVD or FTP server
- 6.9.4 HMC software maintenance
- 6.9.5 Determining which firmware or fix level is correct for your system
- 6.9.6 Managed system firmware updates
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6.10 Advanced System Management Interface
- 6.10.1 What is new in managing the ASMI
- 6.10.2 Connecting to ASMI
- 6.10.3 Log in to ASMI
- 6.10.4 Power and restart control
- 6.10.5 System Service Aids menu options
- 6.10.6 System Information menu options
- 6.10.7 System Configuration menu options
- 6.10.8 Network Services menu options
- 6.10.9 Performance Setup menu options
- 6.10.10 On Demand Utilities menu options
- 6.10.11 Login Profile menu options
- Chapter 7. Performance and capacity monitoring
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Chapter 8. Good practices
- 8.1 Planning
- 8.2 Initial configuration
- 8.3 Security
- 8.4 Problem determination
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8.5 Maintaining Licensed Internal Code
- 8.5.1 Management Console Data backups
- 8.5.2 HMC code installation, upgrade, or update overview
- 8.5.3 Install and recovery
- 8.5.4 Upgrade
- 8.5.5 Updates
- 8.5.6 HMC code update on multiple machines
- 8.5.7 HMC code remotely install/upgrade
- 8.5.8 Network installation, update, backup, and restore
- 8.5.9 Tips for maintaining Licensed Internal Code
- 8.6 Maintaining system firmware
- Appendix A. myHMC
- Appendix B. CLI commands examples
- Appendix C. IBM product engineering debug data collection
- Appendix D. Live Partition Mobility support log collection
- Appendix E. Preboot Execution Environment
- Related publications
- Back cover
Product information
- Title: IBM Power Systems HMC Implementation and Usage Guide
- Author(s):
- Release date: April 2016
- Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
- ISBN: 9780738441559
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