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5.2.2 Settings tab
The Settings tab provides the interface to the tasks that are related to managing your SDMC
appliance itself. These tasks are shown in Figure 5-3.
Figure 5-3 Settings tab tasks
You can click any of the tasks, which opens a new page that will request input to change or
manage the desired setting.
5.3 POWER-based blades management
The traditional way to manage POWER-based blade servers is through the use of Integrated
Virtualization Manager (IVM). The introduction of the SDMC provides new capability to these
blades. This section highlights some of these new features.
5.3.1 IVM characteristics
POWER-based blades have the option to either run a single operating system (native) or
multiple operating systems in logical partitions or LPARs. Under IVM-managed blades, when
multiple LPARs are desired, the Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) is required to be installed first. Part
of the VIOS is the IVM. IVM provides the interface to the hypervisor in much the same way
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