Activating a logical partition

You must activate a logical partition before you can use the logical partition. When you use the Hardware Management Console (HMC), you can activate a logical partition based on its current configuration or you can activate a logical partition by activating a partition profile.

The HMC Classic interface is not supported in Hardware Management Console (HMC) Version 8.7.0, or later. The functions that were previously available in the HMC Classic interface are now available in the HMC Enhanced+ interface.

For more information about activating a logical partition when the HMC is at version 8.7.0, or later, see Activating partitions.

  • Activating a partition profile
    You can activate a partition profile by using the Hardware Management Console (HMC). When you activate a partition profile, you activate a logical partition. The system commits resources to the logical partition based on the configuration in the partition profile and starts the operating system or software that is installed on the logical partition.
  • Activating a logical partition based on its current configuration
    You can use the Hardware Management Console (HMC) to activate a logical partition based on its current configuration instead of a partition profile. When you activate the logical partition, the system commits resources to the logical partition based on the current configuration of the logical partition and starts the operating system or software that is installed on the logical partition. Logical partitions start faster when activated based on their current configuration data than when activated with a partition profile.
  • Viewing the resource configuration status of a logical partition
    You can view the resource configuration status of a logical partition by using the Hardware Management Console (HMC).
  • Applying a profile to a logical partition
    On a Hardware Management Console (HMC) that is at Version 7 Release 7.8.0, or later, you can apply a profile to a logical partition without powering on the logical partition by using the HMC command-line interface.
Parent topic: Managing logical partitions


Last updated: Fri, July 05, 2019