Planning for Integrated Virtualization Manager

Integrated Virtualization Manager (IVM) enhances Virtual I/O Server with a simplified management interface for the PowerVM® Editions (APV) environment on the PS703 or PS704 blade server and other POWER7® platforms.

IVM owns all system resources that you can partition. IVM provides a robust set of partitioning functions for AIX® and Linux partitions, but this functionality is a subset of the Hardware Management Console (HMC), which runs on other POWER® platforms, but not on the PS703 or PS704 blade server.

Point your browser to the IVM Web-based administrative console to manage IVM LPARs remotely. The following tasks are among those that you can perform with the IVM console:

Logical partitioning configuration
Boot, start, and stop actions for individual partitions
Display of partition status
Management of virtual Ethernet
Management of virtual storage
Basic system management
Exporting the system configuration to a file
Importing a system configuration from an IVM on another PS703 or PS704 blade server

If you plan to run IBM® i operating system (formerly known as i5/OS™) on the PS703 or PS704 blade server, you must use PowerVM Editions to do so. Install IBM i as a client operating system in a logical partition. You cannot install IBM i in the PS703 or PS704 blade server unless you install it in an IVM-managed logical partition.

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