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by Paul Sonnenberg, Mika Heino, Guillermo Corti
IBM PowerVC Version 1.3.1 Introduction and Configuration Including IBM Cloud PowerVC Manager
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Summary of changes
September 2016, Fourth Edition
Chapter 1. IBM PowerVC introduction
1.1 IBM PowerVC overview
1.1.1 IBM PowerVC functions and advantages
1.1.2 IBM PowerVM Novalink overview
1.2 IBM PowerVC Editions
1.2.1 IBM PowerVC Standard Edition
1.2.2 IBM Cloud PowerVC Manager
1.3 IBM PowerVC adoption
Chapter 2. IBM IBM PowerVC versions and releases
2.1 Previous versions overview
2.2 IBM IBM PowerVC enhancements throughout the versions
2.2.1 IBM IBM PowerVC release to OpenStack edition cross-reference
2.2.2 IBM IBM PowerVC first release (R1)
2.2.3 IBM IBM PowerVC Version 1.2.0
2.2.4 IBM IBM PowerVC Version 1.2.1
2.2.5 IBM IBM PowerVC Version 1.2.2
2.2.6 IBM IBM PowerVC Version 1.2.3
2.3 IBM IBM PowerVC Version 1.3.0
2.3.1 Dynamic Resource Optimizer
2.3.2 PowerVM Novalink support
2.3.3 Enhanced fabric management through storage connectivity groups
2.3.4 Managing up to 5000 virtual machines
2.3.5 New supported guest operating systems
2.3.6 Functional enhancements that are introduced in Version 1.3.0 Fix Pack 2
2.4 IBM IBM PowerVC Version 1.3.1
2.4.1 IBM Cloud PowerVC Manager
2.4.2 Self-service portal
2.4.3 Access roles
2.4.4 IBM Cloud PowerVC Manager capabilities
2.4.5 Viewing usage information (metering data)
2.4.6 IBM IBM PowerVC Standard edition
Chapter 3. IBM PowerVC installation planning
3.1 IBM PowerVC requirements
3.1.1 Hardware and software requirements
3.1.2 Hardware and software requirements for IBM PowerVC Standard Edition and IBM Cloud PowerVC Manager
3.1.3 Other hardware compatibility
3.2 IBM PowerVM Novalink requirements
3.2.1 PowerVM Novalink system requirements
3.3 Host and partition management planning
3.3.1 Physical server configuration
3.3.2 HMC or PowerKVM planning
3.3.3 Virtual I/O Server planning
3.4 Placement policies and templates
3.4.1 Host groups
3.4.2 Placement policies
3.4.3 Template types
3.4.4 Information that is required for compute template planning
3.4.5 Information that is required for deploy template planning
3.5 IBM PowerVC storage access SAN planning
3.5.1 vSCSI storage access
3.5.2 NPIV storage access
3.5.3 Shared storage pool: vSCSI
3.5.4 Storage access in IBM PowerVC Standard Edition managing PowerKVM
3.6 Storage management planning
3.6.1 IBM PowerVC terminology
3.6.2 Storage templates
3.6.3 Storage connectivity groups and tags
3.7 Network management planning
3.7.1 Multiple network planning
3.7.2 Shared Ethernet adapter planning
3.8 Planning users and groups
3.8.1 User management
3.8.2 Projects and role management planning
3.9 Security management planning
3.9.1 Ports that are used by IBM Power Virtualization Center
3.9.2 Providing a certificate
3.10 Product information
Chapter 4. IBM PowerVC installation
4.1 Setting up the IBM PowerVC environment
4.1.1 Creating the virtual machine to host IBM PowerVC
4.1.2 Downloading and installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4.1.3 Customizing Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4.2 Installing IBM PowerVC
4.3 Uninstalling IBM PowerVC
4.4 Upgrading IBM PowerVC
4.4.1 Before you begin
4.4.2 Performing in-place upgrade
4.4.3 Upgrading or migrating from earlier versions
4.5 Updating IBM PowerVC
4.6 IBM PowerVC backup and recovery
4.6.1 Backing up IBM PowerVC
4.6.2 Recovering IBM PowerVC data
4.6.3 Status messages during backup and recovery
4.6.4 Consideration about backup and recovery
4.7 IBM PowerVC command-line interface
4.7.1 Exporting audit data
4.8 Virtual machines that are managed by IBM PowerVC
4.8.1 Linux on Power virtual machines
4.8.2 IBM AIX virtual machines
4.8.3 IBM i virtual machines
Chapter 5. IBM PowerVC for managing IBM PowerVM
5.1 IBM PowerVC graphical user interface
5.2 Introduction to the IBM PowerVC setup
5.3 Managing resources outside of IBM PowerVC
5.4 Connecting to IBM PowerVC
5.5 Host setup
5.5.1 Host maintenance mode
5.5.2 Host groups
5.6 Hardware Management Console management
5.6.1 Adding an HMC
5.6.2 Changing the HMC credentials
5.6.3 Changing the HMC
5.6.4 Change management connection, HMC, and PowerVM Novalink
5.7 Storage and SAN fabric setup
5.7.1 Adding a storage controller to IBM PowerVC
5.7.2 Adding a SAN fabric to IBM PowerVC
5.8 Storage port tags setup
5.9 Storage connectivity group setup
5.10 Storage template setup
5.11 Storage volume setup
5.12 Network setup
5.13 Compute template setup
5.14 Environment verification
5.14.1 Verification report validation categories
5.15 Management of virtual machines and images
5.15.1 Virtual machine onboarding
5.15.2 Refreshing the virtual machine view
5.15.3 Starting the virtual machine
5.15.4 Stopping the virtual machine
5.15.5 Capturing a virtual machine image
5.15.6 Deploying a new virtual machine
5.15.7 Resizing the virtual machine
5.15.8 Migration of virtual machines
5.15.9 Host maintenance mode
5.15.10 Restarting virtual machines remotely from a failed host
5.15.11 Attaching a volume to the virtual machine
5.15.12 Detaching a volume from the virtual machine
5.15.13 Resetting the state of a virtual machine
5.15.14 Deleting images
5.15.15 Unmanaging a virtual machine
5.15.16 Deleting a virtual machine
Chapter 6. IBM PowerVC Standard Edition for managing IBM PowerKVM
6.1 Install IBM PowerVC Standard to manage PowerKVM
6.2 Setting up PowerVC Standard managing PowerKVM
6.2.1 Adding the PowerKVM host
6.2.2 Adding storage
6.2.3 Adding a network
6.3 Host group setup
6.4 Importing ISO images
6.4.1 Importing ISO images by using the command-line interface
6.4.2 Importing ISO images by using the GUI
6.4.3 Deploying an RHEL ISO image
6.5 Capturing a virtual machine
6.5.1 Installing cloud-init on the virtual machine
6.5.2 Changing devices to be mounted by name or UUID
6.5.3 Capturing the virtual machine
6.6 Deploying images
6.7 Resizing virtual machines
6.8 Suspending and resuming virtual machines
6.9 Restarting a virtual machine
6.10 Migrating virtual machines
6.11 Restarting virtual machines remotely
6.12 Deleting virtual machines
6.13 Creating and attaching volumes
6.14 Attaching volumes
Chapter 7. IBM Cloud PowerVC Manager
7.1 Logging in as a self-service user
7.2 Self-service portal graphical user interface
7.3 Deploying virtual machines from a template
7.4 Viewing the information that is used for deployment
7.5 Viewing deployment requests
7.6 Administrator actions for user requests
7.6.1 Viewing request details as an administrator
7.6.2 Approving a request as an administrator
7.6.3 Viewing approved new virtual machines
Chapter 8. IBM PowerVC lab environment
8.1 IBM PowerVC lab environment
Appendix A. Useful commands and scripts
Useful openstack commands
Useful IBM PowerVC-config commands
Useful scripts
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3-1 Add an admin user account with the useradd command 62
3-2 Update the admin user account with the usermod command 63
3-3 OpenStack API command line to set up roles to projects. 68
3-4 Set a policy by using IBM PowerVC Cloud CLI 68
3-5 Set policies for a specific project for self-service users 70
4-1 Install prerequisites verification 80
4-2 Install IBM PowerVC 81
4-3 Installation completed 81
4-4 Uninstallation successful 82
4-5 Check the IBM PowerVC version from the command-line interface 83
4-6 IBM PowerVC upgrade to Version 1.3.1.0 84
4-7 Enable the IBM Cloud PowerVC Manager offering 87
4-8 Update successfully completed 88
4-9 Example of IBM PowerVC backup 90
4-10 Mismatch between backup and recovery environments 90
4-11 Example of IBM PowerVC recovery 91
4-12 The powervc-audit command use 95
4-13 IBM Installation Toolkit sample output 97
4-14 Resource Monitoring and Control status 98
5-1 The scratchpad.txt file 151
5-2
The scratchpad.txt file 151
5-3 Specific device names for the /etc/fstab file 151
5-4
The /etc/lilo.conf file 152
5-5 Specific devices names for the /etc/lilo.conf file 152
5-6 Commands to enable the activation engine 156
5-7 Output from the /opt/ibm/ae/AE.sh -R command 156
6-1 Import a Red Hat ISO image 206
6-2 ISO image location and naming in IBM PowerVC 209
6-3 virsh list --all output 215
6-4 Virtual console that shows Disc Found message 216
6-5 Symbolic links mapping 219
6-6 Sample device names before the change 220
6-7 Sample device names after the change 220
6-8 lilo.conf file before change 220
6-9 lilo.conf file after change 221
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