System information

Chapter 9. Migration of existing LPAR

profiles to HMC

Users of logical partitioning have a new interface for managing LPAR on System i5 systems.

The

Work with System Partitions option available in V4R4/V4R5/V5R1/V5R2 is no longer

available in V5R3 running on the new System i5 hardware. This option has been moved from

DST/SST to the Hardware Management Console (HMC). The HMC is required for any

System i5 that is running logical partitioning. All LPAR configuration profiles must be created

and managed from the HMC.

In this chapter the following topics are discussed:

򐂰 Migration planning

򐂰 Preparing your system for migration to HMC

򐂰 Migrating Linux partitions

򐂰 Migration example scenarios

򐂰 Backing up HMC profiles