Logical partitioning tools

You must use tools to create logical partitions on your servers. The tool that you use to create logical partitions on each server depends upon the server model and the operating systems and features that you want to use on the server.

Hardware Management Console
The Hardware Management Console (HMC) is a hardware appliance that you can use to configure and control one or more managed systems. You can use the HMC to create and manage logical partitions and activate Capacity Upgrade on Demand. Using service applications, the HMC communicates with managed systems to detect, consolidate, and send information to service and support for analysis.
Partitioning with the Integrated Virtualization Manager
The Integrated Virtualization Manager is a browser-based system management interface for the Virtual I/O Servers. The Integrated Virtualization Manager provides you with the ability to create and manage partitions on a single server.
Virtual Partition Manager
The Virtual Partition Manager is a feature of IBM® i that allows you to create and manage one host partition and up to four client logical partitions, running either Linux or IBM i. You can use the Virtual Partition Manager to create logical partitions on a server that does not have a Hardware Management Console (HMC).

Parent topic: Logical partition overview

Last updated: Fri, July 05, 2019