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Preface

This IBM® Redbooks® publication positions the IBM Systems Director

Management Console (SDMC) against the IBM Hardware Management Console

(HMC). The IBM Systems Director Management Console provides system

administrators the ability to manage IBM Power System® servers as well as IBM

Power Blade servers. It is based on IBM Systems Director.

This publication is designed for system administrators to use as a deskside

reference when managing Virtual Servers (formerly partitions) using the SDMC.

The major functions that the SDMC provides are server hardware management

and virtualization management. You can find further information about

virtualization management in the following documents:

򐂰 IBM PowerVM™ Virtualization: Introduction and Configuration, SG24-7940

򐂰 IBM PowerVM Virtualization: Managing and Monitoring, SG24-7590

򐂰 IBM PowerVM: Live Partition Mobility, SG24-7460

򐂰 IBM System p Advanced POWER Virtualization (Power VM) Best Practices,

REDP-4194

򐂰 PowerVM Virtualization Active Memory™ Sharing, REDP-4470

򐂰 Advanced POWER Virtualization on IBM System p Virtual I/O Server

Deployment Examples, REDP-4224

In this book, we discuss how to:

򐂰 Configure the SDMC.

򐂰 Manage the SDMC itself.

򐂰 Manage Virtual Servers.

򐂰 How to make the transition from HMC to SDMC.

򐂰 Establish redundant SDMC configurations.

򐂰 Use the enhanced service and support functions.

In addition, we explain how to use the new SDMC graphical user interface based

on the IBM Systems Director and the SDMC command line, which is composed

of IBM Systems Director commands and HMC commands.