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IBM PowerVC Version 1.2.3: Introduction and Configuration

Name: IBM PowerVC Version 1.2.3: Introduction and Configuration
ISBN: 9780738441030

by Marco Barboni, Guillermo Corti, Benoit Creau, Liang Hou Xu, Scott Vetter

October 2015

Intermediate to advanced

278 pages

6h 54m

English

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Chapter 1. PowerVC introduction
1.1 PowerVC overview1.1.1 PowerVC functions and advantages1.2 OpenStack overview1.2.1 The OpenStack Foundation1.2.2 OpenStack framework and projects1.2.3 PowerVC high-level architecture1.3 PowerVC Standard Edition1.4 PowerVC adoption
Chapter 2. PowerVC versions and releases
2.1 Previous versions and milestones2.1.1 PowerVC release to OpenStack edition cross-reference2.1.2 IBM PowerVC first release (R1)2.1.3 IBM PowerVC version 1.2.02.1.4 IBM PowerVC version 1.2.12.2 IBM PowerVC version 1.2.2 enhancements and new features2.2.1 Image management2.2.2 Monitoring2.2.3 Host maintenance mode2.2.4 Storage2.2.5 Cisco Fibre Channel support2.2.6 XIV storage support2.2.7 EMC storage support2.2.8 Virtual SCSI support2.2.9 Network2.2.10 Security2.3 New in IBM PowerVC version 1.2.32.3.1 Major software changes2.3.2 Significant scaling improvement2.3.3 Redundant HMC2.3.4 Error scenarios2.3.5 Host groups2.3.6 Advance placement policies2.3.7 Multiple disk capture and deployment2.3.8 PowerVC remote restart2.3.9 Cloud-init for the latest service pack of AIX
Chapter 3. PowerVC installation planning
3.1 IBM PowerVC requirements3.1.1 Hardware and software requirements3.1.2 PowerVC Standard Edition requirements3.1.3 Other hardware compatibility3.2 Host and partition management planning3.2.1 Physical server configuration3.2.2 HMC or PowerKVM planning3.2.3 Virtual I/O Server planning3.3 Placement policies and templates3.3.1 Host groups3.3.2 Placement policies3.3.3 Template types3.3.4 Information that is required for compute template planning3.4 PowerVC storage access SAN planning3.4.1 vSCSI storage access3.4.2 NPIV storage access3.4.3 Shared storage pool: vSCSI3.4.4 Storage access in PowerVC Standard Edition managing PowerKVM3.5 Storage management planning3.5.1 PowerVC terminology3.5.2 Storage templates3.5.3 Storage connectivity groups and tags3.6 Network management planning3.6.1 Multiple network planning3.6.2 Shared Ethernet adapter planning3.7 Planning users and groups3.7.1 User management3.7.2 Group management planning3.8 Security management planning3.8.1 Ports that are used by IBM Power Virtualization Center3.8.2 Providing a certificate3.9 Product information

Chapter 4. PowerVC installation
4.1 Setting up the PowerVC environment4.1.1 Create the virtual machine to host PowerVC4.1.2 Download and install Red Hat Enterprise Linux4.1.3 Customize Red Hat Enterprise Linux4.2 Installing PowerVC4.3 Uninstalling PowerVC4.4 Upgrading PowerVC4.4.1 Before you begin4.4.2 Upgrading4.5 Updating PowerVC4.6 PowerVC backup and recovery4.6.1 Backing up PowerVC4.6.2 Recovering PowerVC data4.6.3 Status messages during backup and recovery4.6.4 Consideration about backup and recovery4.7 PowerVC command-line interface4.7.1 Exporting audit data4.8 Virtual machines that are managed by PowerVC4.8.1 Linux on Power virtual machines4.8.2 IBM AIX virtual machines4.8.3 IBM i virtual machines
Chapter 5. PowerVC Standard Edition for managing PowerVM
5.1 PowerVC graphical user interface5.2 Introduction to PowerVC setup5.3 Connecting to PowerVC5.4 Host setup5.5 Host Groups setup5.6 Hardware Management Console management5.6.1 Add an HMC5.6.2 Changing HMC credentials5.6.3 Change the HMC5.7 Storage and SAN fabric setup5.7.1 Add a storage controller to PowerVC5.7.2 Add SAN fabric to PowerVC5.8 Storage port tags setup5.9 Storage connectivity group setup5.10 Storage template setup5.11 Storage volume setup5.12 Network setup5.13 Compute template setup5.14 Environment verification5.14.1 Verification report validation categories5.15 Management of virtual machines and images5.15.1 Virtual machine onboarding5.15.2 Refresh the virtual machine view5.15.3 Start the virtual machine5.15.4 Stop the virtual machine5.15.5 Capture a virtual machine image5.15.6 Deploy a new virtual machine5.15.7 Add virtual Ethernet adapters for virtual machines5.15.8 Add collocation rules5.15.9 Resize the virtual machine5.15.10 Migration of virtual machines5.15.11 Host maintenance mode5.15.12 Restart virtual machines remotely from a failed host5.15.13 Attach a volume to the virtual machine5.15.14 Detach a volume from the virtual machine5.15.15 Reset the state of a virtual machine5.15.16 Delete images5.15.17 Unmanage a virtual machine5.15.18 Delete a virtual machine
Chapter 6. PowerVC Standard Edition for managing PowerKVM
6.1 Install PowerVC Standard to manage PowerKVM6.2 Set up PowerVC Standard managing PowerKVM6.2.1 Add the PowerKVM host6.2.2 Add storage6.2.3 Add a network6.3 Host group setup6.4 Import ISO images6.4.1 Importing ISO images by using the command-line interface6.4.2 Importing ISO images by using the GUI6.4.3 Deploying an RHEL ISO image6.5 Capture a virtual machine6.5.1 Install cloud-init on the virtual machine6.5.2 Change devices to be mounted by name or UUID6.5.3 Capture the virtual machine6.6 Deploy images6.7 Resize virtual machines6.8 Suspend and resume virtual machines6.9 Restart a virtual machine6.10 Migrate virtual machines6.11 Restarting virtual machines remotely6.12 Delete virtual machines6.13 Create and attach volumes6.14 Attach volumes
Chapter 7. PowerVC lab environment
7.1 PowerVC Standard Edition lab environment for managing PowerVM7.1.1 Hardware Management Console7.1.2 Power Systems hardware7.1.3 Storage infrastructure7.1.4 Storage configuration7.1.5 Storage connectivity groups and port tagging7.1.6 Software stack for PowerVC lab environment7.2 PowerVC Standard managing PowerKVM lab
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Examples

2-1 The chdef commands to set the reserve policy and algorithm on new disks 17

2-2 How to check whether a host can use remote restart from PowerVC 26

2-3 Example of clouddev and ghostdev output 27

2-4 Obtain the values that are set on the ghostdev and clouddev attributes 27

3-1 Adding an admin user account with the useradd command 68

3-2 Verify users 70

3-3 Updating the admin user account with the usermod command 70

4-1 Installing the gettext package 80

4-2 Installing PowerVC 83

4-3 Installation completed 83

4-4 Uninstallation successful 85

4-5 Update successfully completed 87

4-6 Example of PowerVC backup 88

4-7 Mismatch between backup and recovery environments 89

4-8 Example of PowerVC recovery 90

4-9 powervc-audit ...

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