Working with systems with partitions

 

The Systems with Partitions container that is located under Management Central lets you manage the logical partitions of all of the servers on the system from the central system.

With logical partitioning (LPAR), you can address multiple system requirements in a single system to achieve system consolidation, business unit consolidation, and mixed production or test environments. By itself, LPAR does not provide a significant availability increase. It can, however, be used to complement other availability strategies. Since each partition is treated as a separate system, you can run a single environment on a single system image. This can provide for a more cost efficient solution.

 

Authority requirements

Access to logical partition information in iSeries™ Navigator, Dedicated Service Tools (DST), and System Service Tools (SST) requires either operations or administration authority to the logical partition function. In addition, you need remote panel authorization if you want to use the Operations Console remote panel for secondary partitions from your PC.

Logical partitions can be created using iSeries Navigator. In order to access logical partition functions, first configure the service tools server. Service tools are used to configure, manage, and service your IBM^® iSeries model 270 or 8xx or logical partitions. If you want to manage logical partitions on servers other than model 8xx, use the Hardware Management Console (HMC). You will need to use a service tools user ID with LPAR administrator authority.

 

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Using other features of Management Central

 

Related information

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Create logical partitions
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