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IBM PowerVM Best Practices
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IBM PowerVM Best Practices

by Adriano de Almeida, Rafael Antonioli, Urban Biel, Sylvain Delabarre, Bartłomiej Grabowski, Kristian Milos, Fray L Rodríguez
October 2012
Intermediate to advanced
156 pages
3h 51m
English
IBM Redbooks
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Chapter 3. Administration and maintenance 45
3.4 Power Systems server shutdown and startup
The following section describes best practices to shut down and start a whole
IBM Power Systems server by using the HMC.
There are two types of a Power Systems server shutdown, planned and
unplanned. In either case, with an emphasis on unplanned shutdowns, we
suggest that you have partition startup under manual control. Power Systems
server shutdowns are a rare operation, and occur mostly as a result of a disaster.
Before a planned server shutdown, save your current profiles, check if you have
the correct profiles that are set as the default, and perfor ...
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