Dual Vios On Power-Based Blades - IBM BladeCenter PS703 Technical Overview And Introduction

Figure 5-26 Editing and creating new virtual server profiles
After a new profile is created it will be included in the profile list as shown in Figure 5-27.
Figure 5-27 List of available profiles for a virtual server

5.5.3 Dual VIOS on POWER-based blades

One of the new capabilities that has been added to POWER6- and POWER7-based blades
managed by an SDMC is the ability to implement dual Virtual I/O Servers in the same way
HMC-managed systems are able to.
Previously, under IVM-managed systems, the VIOS/IVM would install itself in LPAR number
one, then additional LPARs could be created using IVM. No additional VIOS LPARs are
allowed to be created under this management method.
With SDMC the creation of virtual servers and the type of operating system environment that
they support can occur prior to any operating system installation. The only limitation from a
dual VIOS perspective is the availability of disk and network physical resources. Physical
resource assignment to an virtual server is made at the expansion card slot or controller slot
(physical location code) level. Individual ports and internal disks cannot be individually
assigned. This type of assignment is not unique to POWER-based blades and is common
practice to all POWER platforms.
A minor exception is the 4Gb or 8Gb CFFh combo cards that have both two Ethernet and two
Fibre Channel ports. The Ethernet section of the expansion card can be assigned to a
different virtual server from the virtual server that is using the Fibre Channel section.
However, a split assignment of the same type of port is still not allowed.
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