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4.2.1 What is transitioned
When you transition managed systems from IVM to SDMC, only the following
information is transitioned:
򐂰 Managed system information.
򐂰 Virtual Server information is automatically retrieved from the managed
system after a request access to the managed system is successful.
4.2.2 How to transition
Perform the following steps to transition a managed system from IVM to SDMC:
1. Discover the managed system in SDMC using the System Discovery page.
2. Request access to the managed system. The request access task fails and
the Operating State of your managed system changes to Waiting for Input
and the Detailed State is Pending Authentication - Password updates
required.
3. Update the ASM general and ASM admin passwords for the managed system
using the Update Password task.
The Access state of the system changes to OK and additional tasks are now
available on the context menu for managing the system. The Virtual Servers
hosted by the system are retrieved and listed on the Welcome page.
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 such restrictions, and it is possible that you were using some virtual
slots in the reserved range in the IVM environment. The transition process
looks for such virtual slots and dynamically adjusts the virtual slots range to a
new available range within the maximum slots value specified.
Note: If the automatic readjustment of reserved virtual slot range is
unsuccessful, then you have to shut down and activate the Virtual I/O
Server again to use the advanced PowerVM features. The shutdown and
reboot are needed only when you want to use the advanced PowerVM
features. But the Virtual Servers continue to run normally even without the
shutdown and reboot.