Virtual I/O Server rules management

Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) rules management provides capabilities to simplify VIOS device configuration and setup. It provides predefined default device settings based on the best practice values for VIOS. It also provides flexibility to manage and customize device settings.

You can collect, apply, and verify device settings in a VIOS run-time environment, by using VIOS rules management. It supports consistent device settings on multiple Virtual I/O Servers and updates, and also improves usability and ease of use of VIOS.

Rules file can be distributed to one or many VIOS partitions in a customer data center. This provides consistency between groups of VIOS partitions that use the same rules file. But VIOS rules file does not save nor preserve VIOS specific device instance information, because device instance information might not apply to other Virtual I/O Servers.