Cabling The Server And Setting Up A Console; Determining Which Console To Use; Cabling The Server With An Ascii Terminal - IBM S822L Installation Manual

Cabling the server and setting up a console

Your console, monitor, or interface choices are guided by whether you create logical partitions, which
operating system you install in your primary partition, and whether you install a Virtual I/O Server
(VIOS) in one of your logical partitions.

Determining which console to use:

There are different console types available to manage this server. Learn more about the consoles that are
available.
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IBM PowerKVM is an open virtualization solution that is offered for the Power
Linux servers built on POWER8
PowerKVM delivers server virtualization based on open source Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)
Linux technology. PowerKVM virtualization technology enables you to share real compute, memory, and
I/O resources through server virtualization. These virtual resources are used by virtual machines running
on the PowerKVM virtualized server.
PowerKVM-based server virtualization enables optimization and the commitment of resources like CPU
and memory. This helps you achieve superior resource usage, flexibility, and agility, resulting in cost
reduction through economies of scale.
To get started using PowerKVM virtualization technology on your system, see IBM PowerKVM.
If you do not want to use PowerKVM, read the following section to learn more about choosing a console
type. Go to the instructions for the applicable console, interface, or terminal in the following table.
Table 6. Available console types
Console type Operating system
ASCII terminal AIX, Linux, or VIOS
Hardware AIX, Linux, or VIOS
Management Console
(HMC)
Integrated AIX or Linux
Virtualization
Manager for VIOS
Keyboard, video, and Linux or VIOS
mouse

Cabling the server with an ASCII terminal:

If you are not creating logical partitions, you can use an ASCII terminal to manage a server that is
running the AIX, Linux, or VIOS operating systems. From the ASCII terminal, you can access the
Advanced System Management Interface (ASMI) to complete more installation tasks.
The ASCII terminal is connected to the server through a serial link. The ASCII interface to the ASMI
provides a subset of the web interface functions. The ASCII terminal for the ASMI interface is available
only when the system is in the standby state. It is not available during the initial program load (IPL) or
run time.
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Logical partitions
Yes for VIOS, no for
AIX and Linux
Yes
Yes
Yes
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Cabling setup
Cable required instructions
Serial cable equipped "Cabling the server
with a null modem with an ASCII
terminal" on page 12
Ethernet (or "Cabling the server
cross-over cable) to the HMC" on page
13.
Serial cable "Cabling the server
and accessing the
IVM" on page 15
Monitor and USB "Cabling the server
cables equipped with with keyboard,
keyboard, video, and video, and mouse"
mouse on page 16