Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Can anyone suggest me a link for creating a LPAR in aix machiene?
I have a power5 processor and aix 6.1 OS. But am unable to create an LPAR. Can anyone help me out in this aspect?

Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

You must have an HMC to create an LPAR. I assume that the AIX 6.1 OS you have is a beta copy and you got the P5 on surplus so you may not have an HMC and without one you can't create one unless you purchase the APV code which contains a VIO server and the VIO server code includes something called IVM (Integrated Virtualization Manager). This IVM must be loaded first on a small P5 system, and can be used to build LPARs.

Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Thanx for the reply. Can we create an LPAR on the existing AIX 5.3 OS? Can i have a step by step tutorial which explains how to create an LPAR?

Originally posted by: bassemir

There are any number of sources on creating an LPAR. If you have an HMC as was referenced in an early posting then email me and I can send you an html based tutorial we used in a class that shows how easy it is to build an LPAR with the HMC. bassemir@us.ibm.com

Rich

Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Hi bassemir@us.ibm.com

please send me the steps for creating LPAR and HACMP. on my mail id santjha@gmail.com

Tx

Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

First you need to understand that in AIX you don't create LPARs inside of an OS. You create them on the frame itself. An LPAR is a home for an operating system and becomes an individual server once created and installed. So you put AIX 5 in an LPAR intead of putting an LPAR in AIX 5 or AIX 6. When AIX 6 is generally available you will be able to create Workplace Partitions inside of AIX 6 that have their own security characteristics if you want.

The InfoExplorer has details on creating LPARs as does the Redbook on virtualization. The procedure goes basically like this:

1. Login to the HMC as administrator using WSM (HMC 6) or HTML (HMC 7)
2. Select the server that you want to administer.
3. Go to Server and Partion under the + sign for the server
4. Select Server Management
5. The server will display on the right side of WSM
6. Right click on Server on right panel and select 'Create partition'
7. Give the partition and ID and name
8. Assign resources such as CPU, Memory and I/O to the LPAR
9. Click finish
10. Activate the LPAR by right clicking on the LPAR under the server on the right
11. Select activate - then on the first pop-up go to advanced
12. Change the boot mode to SMS so LPAR will stop at install menus
13. Select 'open terminal or console window'
14. Complete installation like any other AIX server.

Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

What is the hmc username and password? I tried giving hscroot/abc123, which is the default username and password, but it is not connecting. It is authenticating without even giving an error message for a long long time. SO where does a HMC username and password reside? Should we need a NIM server inorder to create a HMC username and password? Or shoud we first create a HMC user namd and passwd? If so, where should we create it?

Originally posted by: MichaelAM

if hscroot/abc123 is not working, then the default has been changed. Since you are just getting started, I would recommend reinstalling the hmc.

And if the complete system is not new, you may want to use the ASMI interface to reset the POWER5 to factory settings. There are passwords in the managed system used by the hmc to communicate with service processor and the hypervisor.

There are a number of short videos at http://rootvg.net/content/category/3/43/93/ that might be helpful.