Re: HMC System Plan Deployment error

I believe that version of HMC code level to be somewhat old, I have worked
on the HMC for a while now but I have never attempted to do a System Plan
Import. If you have IBM support I would call them and see what they say, if
your sure the machine can support LPAR etc then I would probably move
forward if time is an issue and go the route that Rob has specified.

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 3:56 PM, <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Caveat: I don't do these all the time.

I haven't had much luck with system plans. In fact I did one FSP upgrade
where I ended up having to rekey all 4 lpars by scratch, with a dummy lpar
in the middle to ensure that all lpars had the original lpar number for
licensing reasons. (Previously we deleted an lpar.) This was on a four
tower machine

Good luck on your bulldog determination to get it done. However, if you
don't get a resolution quickly you may want to consider keying in the lpar
manually.


Rob Berendt
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From: "Evan Harris" <evan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'"
<midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 04/27/2010 03:28 PM
Subject: HMC System Plan Deployment error
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Hi Guys

I'm helping out with configuring a system that needs some LPAR'ing.
Specifically, The guys I am working with have a 520 that they want to
configure with two partitions.

What I've done so far:

- Created a system plan on the HMC
- Exported the system plan to the SPT (system planning tool)
- Built the two partitions and assigned the hardware using the SPT
- Copied the validated sysplan onto a USB key
- Imported the new sysplan into the HMC
- Attempted to deploy the system plan just imported.

Deploying the plan fails with a message that the system plan specifies
"partition availability priority" which is not valid for the current
system
(checking the capabilities of the system verifies that partition
availability priority is false).

What I couldn't find is where the partition availability priority is
actually set. Viewing the system plan on the HMC shows "partition
availability priority=127". In the system planning tool I can't find
anywhere where this parameter is specified.

Do I need some patches for the HMC and/or the SPT or am I missing
something
in the process. My immediate thought is to upgrade the HMC to whatever the
latest is, but that seems to needs a few days of study...

HMC is Version 7 Release 3.3.0 Service Pack 0 build 20080421.1
SPT Version is 4.10.97.0

Regards
Evan Harris



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