IBM Power Systems HMC Implementation and Usage Guide

Hardware Management Console overview

This chapter provides an overview of the Hardware Management Console (HMC) and the HMC V8 enhancements through Release 8.4.0.

This chapter describes the following topics:

•Overview of Hardware Management Console (HMC)

•Enhancements in HMC Version 8

•Hardware Models

1.1 Overview of Hardware Management Console (HMC)

The HMC is an appliance for planning, deploying, and managing IBM Power Systems servers. It can be used to create and modify logical partitions, including dynamically adding and removing resources ...