Installation guide

52 NovaScale Master 5.2-x Server Add-ons - Installation and Administrator's Guide
3.3.4 NSMasterViosLPAR ”ViosLPAR” Management
3.3.4.1 Overview
Dynamic logical partitioning (LPAR) is a system architecture delivered on IBM systems that
allows the division of a single server into several completely independent virtual servers or
logical partitions. The Virtual I/O Server is a special purpose partition that provides virtual
I/O resources to other partitions and offers the Integrated Virtualization Manager (IVM) to
manage virtual devices and partitions
The ViosLPAR Add-on provides functional links to supervise the logical partitions by
requesting the IVM component.
The following figure shows the link between each component:
Figure 3-28. ViosLPAR Add-on components
3.3.4.2 NovaScale Master Configuration
To configure the monitoring elements for the ViosLPAR Add-on, you have to define an IBM
VIOS Virtualization Platform from the NovaScale Master Configuration GUI. Native OS,
LPARs and related monitoring services are defined in one easy step.
The native OS is represented by a NSMaster host with the OS: Vios.
LPARs are represented by a NSMaster host with the model: IBM Lpar.