Setting up the VIO Server

Setting up the VIO Server

Normally, setting up Virtual I/O is done alongside creating partitions and making virtual devices available to the partitions. So the process involves actions that need to be performed on the HMC, and actions to be performed on the VIO Server side. For this reason, planning and designing your layout up front is crucial to implementing a successful configuration.
The following steps have to be taken using the HMC interface:

Creating a virtual Ethernet adapter for the Virtual I/O Server

Creating virtual SCSI server adapters

Creating client partitions

Creating virtual Ethernet adapters for client partitions

Creating the virtual SCSI adapter for client partitions

The following steps have to be taken using the VIO Server command line interface:

Defining volume groups and logical volumes

Creating a Shared Ethernet Adapter

Installing client partition AIX 5L

For detailed explanations about each of these steps, refer to the IBM Redbooks publication PowerVM Virtualization on IBM System p: Introduction and Configuration Fourth Edition, SG24-7940.