Re: Green Screen SST Virtual Partition Manager 'VS' HMC Partition Manager

VPM is enabled in IBM i 7.1 with TR 3 and I think requires POWER7 (but don't quote me on that last part.)

Same rules as for Linux - Must be completely hosted including LAN - no switching of cards in and out of VPM partitions and no dedicated cards to the partition.

Yes one PC can be the console for many partitions with LAN console. Many Many in fact.

- L

On 11/1/2011 4:54 PM, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Back many releases ago you could configure lpars from a "controlling"
partition. And there used to be an option in STRSST to do that. We used
to work this way. Now that we are using an HMC if I try to take "5. Work
with system partitions" I get:
Logical Partitioning Environment Not Supported
Virtual Partition Manager is not supported and this service
function cannot be started. The system is in a state that
does not allow this operating system to partition the
server. Refer to the Virtual Partition Manager documentation
for more information.

I thought that was now limited to Linux lpars only, however, this is
showing me otherwise
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpieces/abstracts/redp4806.html?Open
7.1 required. Published October 26, 2011.

Note: I am learning new stuff as I type...
Never in this redpiece do they discuss the system console.

Can one pc be the lan console for multiple lpars?

Rob Berendt