The CA IBM PowerVM component of CA Virtual Assurance lets you monitor and manage IBM PowerVM resources. The monitored and managed resources consist of the following types:
The Hardware Management Console (HMC) is an external appliance that is used to perform management tasks on IBM PowerVM Systems. HMC can be used to create or change logical partitions, including dynamically assigning resources to a partition. The HMC communicates with the server firmware layers of POWER Systems, providing a single point of control in large PowerVM environments.
The Integrated Virtualization Manager (IVM) is an enhancement of the Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) and allows you to manage a single POWER System. IVM lets you create and manage LPARs. IVM enables management of VIOS functions and provides a web-based user interface.
A Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) is a special logical partition that is configured to own all physical I/O resources and provides its virtualization capabilities to other LPARs. LPARs access disk, network, and optical devices through the Virtual I/O Servers as virtual devices. Each PowerVM system with virtualized resources has a Virtual I/O Server.
A Logical Partition (LPAR) is a subset of hardware resources, virtualized as a separate system. A physical system can be partitioned into multiple LPARs, each providing a separate operating system and applications. The number of logical partitions depends on the hardware configuration of the system. LPARs communicate in the network as separate systems.
To manage IBM PowerVM resources, provide SSH access credentials to HMC/IVM Servers and Virtual I/O Servers.
You can configure CA Virtual Assurance to manage PowerVM resources by using CA Virtual Assurance Administration, Configuration, Provisioning, the IBM PowerVM Group.
The following panels are available:
The LPAR AIM Server is the system on which SystemEDGE and the LPAR AIM run. The LPAR AIM can run on the local CA Virtual Assurance manager system or on a remote Windows server. The LPAR AIM is a multi-instance AIM that can connect to multiple HMCs or IVMs. Once the AIM starts managing an HMC or IVM server, the AIM discovers and manages all P-Servers that are connected to this HMC or IVM server.
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