VCS requirements for managing LPARs as virtual machines

To use VCS to manage LPARs as virtual machines, the following requirements must be met.

Table: System requirements for the LPAR-supported configurations

VCS version

6.0

Supported OS version in LPARs

AIX 6.1 TL 5 and above.

AIX 7.1 and above.

Supported VIOS version

2.1.3.10-FP-23 and above

Supported HMC version

7.2.0.0

Note:

All the physical servers that are part of a cluster should be managed by the same HMC.

Supported hardware

Power5,6,7