You can use the Hardware Management Console (HMC) to deploy all or part
of a system plan to a managed system.
When you deploy a system plan, the HMC creates logical partitions
on the managed system according to the specifications in the system
plan.
You do not have to deploy a system plan in its entirety.
Instead, you can partially deploy a system plan on the target system
by selecting the logical partitions in the plan to deploy. You can
run the Deploy System Plan Wizard again at another time to deploy
the remainder of the logical partitions in the system plan.
Note: HMC Version 7 Release 7.1,
and later, does not support Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) provisioning and
operating environment installation for POWER7® processor-based servers
when you deploy a system plan.
Before you deploy a system
plan, complete the following tasks:
To deploy a system plan on a managed system by using the HMC, complete the following
steps:
- Choose one of the following navigation options depending on the interface type of the Hardware Management Console (HMC):
- On the Welcome page, complete the following steps:
- Select the system-plan file that contains the system
plan that you want to deploy.
- Select the managed system to which you want to deploy
the system plan and click Next. If
the system plan does not match the managed system to which you want
to deploy the plan, the wizard displays a window with this information.
Click OK to continue, or Cancel to
select a different system plan.
Note: If the system-plan file contains
multiple system plans, the wizard provides a step so that you can
select a specific system plan from the file. The wizard does not provide
this step unless there is more than one system plan in the specified
file.
- On the Validation page, complete the following steps:
- Wait for the wizard to validate the managed system and
its hardware against the system plan. The validation process
can take several minutes.
- If the validation process completes successfully, click Next.
- If the validation process fails, correct the problems
that the error messages indicate, click Cancel to
exit the wizard, and restart this procedure from the beginning. To help you correct any validation problems, you might want
to create a system plan that is based on the current configuration
of the managed system. By using such a system plan, you can compare
the system plan that you want to deploy with the current configuration
of the managed system. You can do this by using the Create System
Plan task in the HMC,
or by running the following command from the HMC command line:
mksysplan -m name_of_managed_system -f name_of_new_system_plan.sysplan
This
action creates a system plan that you can view and compare to the
old system plan to help diagnose any problems.
- Optional: On the Partition Deployment page,
if you do not want to create all the logical partitions, partition
profiles, virtual adapter types, or virtual adapters in the system
plan, clear the boxes in the Deploy column
next to the logical partitions, partition profiles, virtual adapter
types, or virtual adapters that you do not want to create. Virtual
serial adapters are required in virtual slots 0 and 1 for each logical
partition. You cannot create the logical partition unless you create
these virtual serial adapters.
- On the Summary page, review the system deployment step
order and click Finish. The HMC uses the system plan
to create the specified logical partitions. This process can take
several minutes.