CA Virtual Assurance Release Notes › New Features and Enhancements › IBM LPAR

IBM LPAR

In this release, the following new features or changes are available:

Unified Administration Panel

The IBM PowerVM configuration has been unified with other platforms like VC or Zones. All Power servers that are managed by the HMC that is configured are managed automatically. CA Virtual Assurance discovers new Power servers that are added later to the HMC are automatically.

Multiple Shared Processor Pools

Enables creation of multiple processor pools for flexible allocation of resources. The Processor Pools Pane was added to the Summary tab for a selected Managed Power System.

Dual HMC

CA Virtual Assurance supports dual HMC. A dual HMC is a redundant Hardware Management Console (HMC) management system that provides high availability. When two HMCs manage one system, they are peers. Each HMC can be used to control the managed system. One HMC can manage multiple managed systems, and each managed system can have two HMCs.

Preferred AIM

The HMC/IVM Server Configuration in the Administration tab of the user interface has been enhanced to specify preferred AIM.

Management Status

The HMC/IVM Server Configuration allows enabling or disabling management of the HMC/IVM server.

Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) Default Credentials

The VIOS default credentials apply to VIOS that are discovered for a particular HMC server.

Multiple Virtual I/O Servers

CA Virtual Assurance supports multiple Virtual I/O servers (VIOS). Multiple Virtual I/O servers offer capability that increase application availability by enabling Virtual I/O server maintenance without a downtime for the client partitions. CA Virtual Assurance discovers all VIOS attached to a Power server and allows configuring VIOS access credentials.

Deferred Load of Unconfigured Components

This functionality provides a warning status (Not configured) for registered components that are not configured.

Fibre Channel Support

The CA Virtual Assurance provides important information about the status of Fibre Channel virtualization and availability of worldwide port names (WWPN). Fibre Channel is a standardized gigabit-speed technology for transmitting data between computer devices. Fibre Channel is especially suited for connecting computer servers to shared storage devices and for interconnecting storage controllers and drives.