Cabling The Server And Setting Up A Console - IBM S922 Installing

Figure 11. Attaching the extension tab to the cable management arm to the outer cable management
arm tab
5. To route the cables through the cable management arm, press the latches on the cable management
arm to open the baskets, route the cables through the arm, and then re-latch the baskets until they are
fully seated.

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
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.
Go to the instructions for the applicable console, interface, or terminal in the following table.
Table 1. Available console types
Console type
ASCII terminal
Hardware
Management
Console (HMC)
Operations Console IBM i
Keyboard, video,
and mouse (KVM)
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H922 (9223-22H), or IBM Power System H922S (9223-22S)
Operating system Logical partitions
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AIX , Linux , or Yes for VIOS, no for
VIOS AIX and Linux
AIX, IBM i, Linux, Yes
or VIOS
Yes
Use your
Operations Console
to manage existing
IBM i partitions.
Linux or VIOS Yes
Cabling setup
Cable required instructions
Serial cable "Cabling the server
equipped with a with an ASCII
null modem terminal" on page
13
Ethernet (or cross- "Cabling the server
over cable) to the HMC" on
page 14.
Ethernet cable for "Cabling the server
LAN connection and accessing
Operations
Console" on page
15
Monitor and USB "Cabling the server
cables equipped with keyboard,
with KVM video, and mouse"
on page 18