Setting up management LPAR
Following is a high-level overview of the steps required for setting up the management LPARs.
Setting up management LPAR
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Install VCS on all nodes of the management LPARs cluster. For information about installing VCS, refer to the Veritas Cluster Server Installation Guide.
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Make sure that the HMC is at the supported level.
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Make sure that the VIOS are at the supported level.
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Configure password-less SSH communication from the management LPAR to the HMC. This step is required for all nodes of the cluster even if a node has no LPAR resource.
See Configuring password-less SSH communication between VCS nodes and HMC.
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The managed LPARs are managed via HMC. Ensure that the network connection between the physical servers and the HMC has redundancy.
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Set auto restart of management LPAR to "on".
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Ensure that PhysicalServer system level attribute has the physical server name.
Use the following command to retrieve the physical server name.
# lssyscfg -r sys -F name
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Set up the managed LPARs.
See Setting up managed LPARs.
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Configure the LPARs that need to be managed and monitored as VCS LPAR resources.
See Bundled agents for managing the LPAR.
See the Veritas Cluster Server Bundled Agents Reference Guide.
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Set the Service Group level attribute SysDownPolicy = {"AutoDisableNoOffline"} for groups that have LPAR resources.
See Failure scenarios handling .
For more information on the Service Group level attribute SysDownPolicy, see the Veritas Cluster Server User's Guide.