06180nam 2200553Ia 450 991082519200332120200520144314.0(CKB)1000000000243542(SSID)ssj0000280945(PQKBManifestationID)11247280(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000280945(PQKBWorkID)10301185(PQKB)11258083(MiAaPQ)EBC3306493(Au-PeEL)EBL3306493(CaPaEBR)ebr10112491(OCoLC)61731571(EXLCZ)99100000000024354220050517d2004 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrIntroduction to pSeries provisioning /[Dino Quintero ... et al.]1st ed.Austin, TX IBM, International Technical Support Organizationc2004xviii, 192 p. illIBM redbooks"November 2004.""SG24-6389-00."0-7384-9089-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Front cover -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Examples -- Notices -- Trademarks -- Preface -- The team that wrote this redbook -- Become a published author -- Comments welcome -- Chapter 1. Introduction to pSeries provisioning -- 1.1 What is provisioning? -- 1.2 What this redbook is all about -- 1.3 Provisioning on demand -- 1.3.1 What do we need to provision? -- 1.3.2 The provisioning process -- 1.3.3 The provisioning environment -- 1.4 Provisioning and open standards -- Chapter 2. IBM on demand business -- 2.1 On demand business operating environment -- Chapter 3. Tivoli Provisioning Manager -- 3.1 High level architecture -- 3.2 Workflows -- 3.3 Prerequisites for pSeries provisioning -- 3.4 Product packaging -- Chapter 4. pSeries provisioning tools overview -- 4.1 Hardware provisioning tools -- 4.1.1 The Hardware Management Console (HMC) -- 4.1.2 Dynamic Logical Partitions -- 4.1.3 Micro-partitioning -- 4.1.4 Virtual I/O (VIO) -- 4.1.5 Capacity on Demand (CoD) -- 4.1.6 IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center with Advanced Provisioning -- 4.2 Software provisioning tools -- 4.2.1 Network Installation Manager (NIM) -- 4.2.2 Cluster Systems Management (CSM) -- 4.2.3 WorkLoad Manager (WLM) -- 4.2.4 Partition Load Manager (PLM) -- 4.2.5 The Virtualization Engine -- 4.2.6 High Availability Cluster Multi-Processing (HACMP) -- 4.2.7 Service Update Management Assistant (SUMA) -- 4.3 Comparison of the tools available -- 4.3.1 HMC and VEC -- 4.3.2 POWER Hypervisor™ and Partition Load Manager -- 4.3.3 Virtual I/O and physical networks -- 4.3.4 NIM and CSM -- 4.3.5 HACMP -- 4.3.6 Dedicated and shared processor partitions -- 4.3.7 Workload management and partitioning -- Chapter 5. General scenario description -- 5.1 Summary of procedures used for scenarios -- 5.1.1 pSeries POWER4 provisioning scenario -- 5.1.2 pSeries POWER5 provisioning scenario.5.2 Aim of the scenarios -- 5.3 General considerations -- 5.3.1 Hardware Management Console (HMC) -- 5.3.2 Advanced System Management Interface (ASMI) -- 5.3.3 Operating system -- 5.3.4 NIM -- 5.3.5 Alternate disk installation -- 5.3.6 CSM -- 5.3.7 WLM -- 5.3.8 Dynamic Logical Partitioning -- 5.3.9 Virtualization system technology -- 5.3.10 Capacity on Demand -- 5.3.11 Simultaneous multi-threading -- 5.3.12 Partition Load Manager (PLM) -- 5.3.13 HACMP -- Chapter 6. POWER4 provisioning scenario -- 6.1 Preparation of the environment -- 6.1.1 Hardware preparation -- 6.1.2 Hardware Management Console (HMC) setup -- 6.1.3 Creation of partitions -- 6.1.4 NIM and the CSM management server -- 6.1.5 Automatic node customization and application deployment -- 6.2 The client installation -- 6.2.1 Set the nodes to install -- 6.2.2 Installp bundle prerequisite handling -- 6.2.3 Routing issues -- 6.2.4 Network boot the nodes -- 6.3 Dynamic LPAR operations -- 6.3.1 Dynamic LPAR using the IBM Web-based System Manager GUI -- 6.3.2 Automated dynamic LPAR -- 6.4 RSCT event manager -- 6.4.1 Prepare the monitor -- 6.5 OS migration using NIM alt_disk_install feature -- 6.5.1 System preparation -- 6.5.2 Operating system upgrade -- 6.5.3 Verification of the nodes -- Chapter 7. POWER5 provisioning scenario -- 7.1 Hardware preparation -- 7.2 Installation of Virtual LPARs -- 7.2.1 HMC definition to CSM -- 7.2.2 NIM setup for the new environment -- 7.2.3 Install the operating system -- 7.3 Virtual I/O devices -- 7.3.1 Step 1. Verify the list of Ethernet devices -- 7.3.2 Step 2. Create the virtual Ethernet device -- 7.3.3 Configure and verify the Ethernet device -- 7.3.4 Dynamically remove the Ethernet device -- 7.4 Service Update Management Assistant (SUMA) -- 7.4.1 Create new SUMA task -- 7.5 Partition Load Manager (PLM) -- 7.5.1 PLM installation and configuration.7.5.2 Dynamic system reconfiguration with PLM -- Chapter 8. pSeries provisioning in an on demand world -- 8.1 Open standards for provisioning -- 8.1.1 openPegasus and openCIMOM -- 8.1.2 Web services -- 8.1.3 GRID computing -- 8.2 Storage virtualization for provisioning -- 8.3 The role of RSCT in provisioning -- 8.3.1 Resource managers for provisioning -- 8.3.2 Extending RSCT -- Appendix A. CPU resource distribution by Hypervisor and PLM -- A.1 Entitlement in POWER Hypervisor -- A.2 Distribution of the excess -- A.2.1 Description 1 -- A.2.2 Description 2 -- A.3 Entitlement in PLM -- A.4 Resource distribution in PLM -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- Related publications -- IBM Redbooks -- Other publications -- Online resources -- How to get IBM Redbooks -- Help from IBM -- Index -- Back cover.IBM redbooks.Electronic data processingManagementElectronic data processingManagement.004/.068Quintero Dino1635093International Business Machines Corporation.International Technical Support Organization.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910825192003321Introduction to pSeries provisioning4121326UNINA