Setting up management LPAR
Following is a high-level overview of the steps required for setting up the management LPARs.
Setting up management LPAR
- Install VCS on all nodes of the management LPARs cluster. For information about installing VCS, refer to the Cluster Server Configuration and Upgrade Guide.
- Make sure that the HMC is at the supported level.
- Make sure that the VIOS are at the supported level.
- 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.
- The managed LPARs are managed via HMC. Ensure that the network connection between the physical servers and the HMC has redundancy.
- Set auto restart of management LPAR to "on".
- 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
- Set up the managed LPARs.
See Setting up managed LPARs.
- Configure the LPARs that need to be managed and monitored as VCS LPAR resources.
See Bundled agents for managing the LPAR.
See the Cluster Server Bundled Agents Reference Guide.
- Set the Service Group level attribute SysDownPolicy = {"AutoDisableNoOffline"} for groups that have LPAR resources.
See Managing logical partition (LPAR) failure scenarios.
For more information on the Service Group level attribute SysDownPolicy, see the Cluster Server User's Guide.