Changing advanced partition settings
You can view and change advanced settings of a partition by using the Hardware Management Console (HMC).
The advanced settings for a partition include the following
options:
- Enable connection monitoring
- Monitors the connection between the partition and the HMC.
- Enable redundant error path information
- If you enable the redundant error-path reporting, the partition reports common server hardware errors and partition hardware errors to the HMC. If you disable redundant error-path reporting, the partition reports only partition hardware errors to the HMC. If you want to move a partition, disable the redundant error-path reporting.
- Enable time reference
- Synchronize the PowerVM Hypervisor and Service Processors time-of-day based on the time-of-day setting of the concerned partition and other Time Reference partitions.
- Disable migration
- You can disable the Live Partition Mobility feature for an AIX®, Linux, or IBM® i partition.
- Service partition
-
Indicates whether the partition is the service partition for the managed system. The service partition is the IBM i logical partition on an IBM System i® managed system that you can configure to apply server firmware updates to the service processor or to the Hypervisor and to communicate server common hardware errors to IBM. These abilities are useful if the HMC is undergoing maintenance or is otherwise unable to perform these functions. You must change the service partition on the managed system through the managed system properties.
- Enable virtualized trusted platform module (VTPM)
- With the HMC Version 7 Release 7.4.0, or later, and IBM POWER7® processor-based servers with firmware at level 7.4, or later, you can enable the virtual trusted platform module (VTPM) on an AIX or Linux partition. A partition that is VTPM enabled supports the Trusted Boot capability. Trusted Boot is a capability that is supported on the Power® Security and Compliance (PowerSC™) Standard Edition. Up to 60 partitions per server can be configured to have their own unique VTPM by using the HMC. The VTPM is used to record the system boot and, in association with the AIX Trusted Execution technology, provides security and assurance of the boot image on disk, on the entire operating system, and in the application layers.
- Enable performance information collection
- Enable the operating system on a partition to collect performance information.
- Restricted I/O partition
- Determines whether an IBM i
partition can be migrated by using the Live Partition Mobility (LPM)
feature. You can migrate the IBM i
partition only if you select the Restricted I/O Partition option.
On servers that do not support IBM i
partitions with native I/O, you must always enable this option. On
servers running firmware level FW860 or later, the IBM i native I/O capability of the server is
available on the Licensed Capabilities page.
This option can be enabled only when the partition is stopped.Note: The Restricted I/O partition setting is applicable only to IBM i partitions.
- OptiConnect
- A feature of the IBM i operating system that allows a user to connect multiple System i systems by using SPD bus, high-speed link (HSL) loop, or virtual interpartition technologies. This option can be enabled only when the partition is stopped.
- Enable Electronically report errors that cause partition termination or require attention
- Select this option to set the HMC to send an electronic report to service and support whenever this IBM i logical partition terminates abnormally or encounters an error that requires service. (The HMC does not report errors that requires user intervention.) Use this feature to enable automatic service calls for IBM i logical partitions that run mission-critical applications. This field displays only for IBM i logical partitions.
To view and change the advanced settings of the partition,
complete the following steps: