IBM BladeCenter PS703 Technical Overview And Introduction

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Chapter 5. Systems Director Management Console 1595.4.1 IVM to SDMC transition processThe transition process is performed manually for the IVM to SDMC transition. The transitionwizard available for HMC to SDMC moves cannot be used for IVM to SDMC transitions. Priorto the transition the managed system has to be in an IVM-managed state. After the transitionis complete, you are not able to use the IVM user interface, because the Virtual ManagementChannel (VMC) is deactivated. The VMC is the device on the Virtual I/O Server that enables adirect hypervisor configuration. This device is activated only when the Virtual I/O Serverdetects that the environment has to be managed by IVM.What information is transitionedWhen you transition managed systems from IVM to SDMC, only the following information istransitioned: Managed system information. Virtual server information is automatically retrieved from the managed system after arequest access to the managed system is successful.How to transitionThe following steps are used to transition a managed system from IVM to SDMC:1. Discover the managed system.2. Request access to the managed system.3. Update the ASM passwords.When the access state of the system changes to OK, additional tasks are now available onthe context menu for managing the system. The virtual servers hosted by the system areretrieved and listed on the Welcome page. Information on the actual steps required toperform the transition can be found in 5.4.2, “Steps to SDMC management of POWER-basedblades” on page 160.This transition performs the following operations internally: Fetches the virtual server configuration information from the hypervisor. Updates the SDMC with the managed system information from the hypervisor. The virtual slots ranging from 2 to 10 are reserved in SDMC. The IVM does not have suchrestrictions, and it is possible that you were using some virtual slots in the reserved rangein the IVM environment. The transition process looks for such virtual slots and dynamicallyadjusts the virtual slots range to a new available range within the maximum slots valuespecified. Creates default profiles based on virtual server current configuration read from PHYPbecause IVM does not support profiles.MessagesBy default, all success and failure messages are listed in the Event Log page. The Event Logpage is available under the System Status and Health category in the navigation area. CheckNote: If the automatic readjustment of the reserved virtual slot range is unsuccessful,then you have to shut down and activate the Virtual I/O Server again to use theadvanced PowerVM features. The shutdown and reboot are needed only when youwant to use the advanced PowerVM features; the virtual servers continue to runnormally even without the shutdown and reboot.