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HMC Enhanced UI Deep DiveAllyn Walsh, Hari G M & S. Ashok

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• PowerVM Simplification Enhancements

• New Login Page

• Classic vs Enhanced Option

• Navigating through Enhanced UI

• Setting up system using System Template

• Creating VIOS & Partition (Templates)

• Managing Partition

• Virtual Storage Management

• Virtual Network Management

• Performance & Capacity Monitoring

• HMC Management

• Serviceability

Session objectives

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PowerVM Simplification Enhancements

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Enhanced UI Roadmap

Performance Improvements

HMC V8 R8.2.0 - Tech Preview

HMC V8 R8.3.0

GA

HMC V8 R8.4.0Storage Topology

SSP Tiers & Failure Groups

HMC V8 R8.5.0 SRIOV & Virtual NIC

topology diagramsTablet Support

HMC V8 R8.6.0Topology Diagram Enhancements

Task Pod (Tasks Log)New option to create partition

HMC V8 R8.6.0 SP1New Login Page

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Performance Enhancements in HMC V8 R8.5.0

• Response time above in seconds• Configuration used:

• CR6 HMC (with 16GB of RAM)• 6 Managed Systems (1 E870, 3 p260s, 2 p460+) and some emulated instances

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Performance Enhancements in HMC V8 R8.6.0

• Response time above in seconds• Configuration used:

• CR9 HMC (with 16GB of RAM)• 5 Managed Systems (S824 machines: 8286-42A)• 500 LPARS total (100 partitions per system)

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New Login Page – HMC V8 R8.6.0 SP1 onwards

New design with easy access to social media and app links Developer Works Blogs on PowerVM – Available only when accessing HMC remotely

User Credentials

System/Partition Status

Social Media & App Links PowerVM LinkedIn Group

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https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8403988




New Login Page – HMC V8 R8.7.0 – No Classic option

New design with easy access to social media and app links Developer Works Blogs on PowerVM – Available only when accessing HMC remotely

User Credentials

System/Partition Status

Social Media & App Links PowerVM LinkedIn Group

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Classic vs Enhanced – Terminology & Menus

HMC Classic Interface HMC Enhanced UI Interface

Create Partition Templates (Resources > All Systems > Server > View System Properties > System Actions > Templates)

Partition Properties, DLPAR Manage Partition (Resources > All Systems > Server > Partition > * (Properties/Processors/Memory/Physical IO/Virtual Storage/Virtual Networks/Virtual NICs)

Server > Configuration > Virtual Resources Resources > All Systems > Server > PowerVM

Server > Hardware Information > Adapters Resources > All Systems > Server > PowerVM > Hardware Virtualized I/O

Server > Performance Resources > All Systems > Server > View System Properties > Capacity > Performance Dashboard

Server > Properties Resources > All Systems > Server > View System Properties

Partition > Configuration > Manage Profiles Resources > All Systems > Server > Partition > Partition Actions > Profiles

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Navigating through Enhanced UI

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Navigating through Enhanced UI – Launch Page – Gallery View

Tool Bar

Resource Path

Quick Filter (Filter by fields of specific resource)

Global Search (Search across all resources)

Pins – Like Shortcuts/Bookmarks

Task Log

Gallery, Table & Relational Views

Pin the page

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Navigating through Enhanced UI – Getting Started

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Navigating through Enhanced UI

Resource Menus

About HMC – Version, Build Level, MTMSKC, Read Me, Getting Started,

About Links

• Easy access to resources (all systems view, all partitions view), read me and version info• Multiple options to navigate through resources

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Navigating through Enhanced UI – Systems All Actions

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Navigating through Enhanced UI – Systems Actions & Options

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Setting up a system and initial configuration

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System Templates

To work with system templates, use the Templates and OS Images option. Deploy System Template can be launched in 2 ways1. From Template

Library – In this case, Wizard would ask you to choose the system for deployment

2. System > View All Actions > Deploy System Template

Template Library View

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System Templates • Use System Template to

• Set system settings like LMB Size, Power Off Policy, Firmware Start Policy

• Create Shared Processor Pool, Shared Memory Pool as needed

• Configure IO adapters (SRIOV, HEA)• Create Virtual IO Server (VIOS) and Install VIOS• Configure Network Settings (Create Network

Bridge, Virtual Network)• Configure Storage

Note: When system template deploy is being used, it would initialize the system (i.e., delete all the partitions on the system) first and then performs above mentioned configuration.

Only certain specific details are allowed to be edited during the deploy process, so its important to edit the template and have the required configuration before deploy.

If you would like to Add VIOS to an existing system, use the Create Virtual IO Server Option in Resources > All Systems > System > Virtual IO Servers

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System Templates – Launch from Template Library

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System Templates

When you click on Reset Button on the selected system, message is displayed as to what action would be taken to reset the system

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System Templates

• Use the start button to start the system configuration setup

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System Templates

• Choose install options and specify install details• Once install is complete and RMC connection becomes active, accept the license & you can configure

Network (Network Bridge) & Storage (Like attach to a SSP) on the VIOS

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Create & Activate Partitions/Virtual IO Server

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Partition Templates

How to Create Partition Templates ? • HMC provides Canned/Starter Templates (cannot be edited/deleted)• Existing partition configuration can be captured as user defined template• Starter templates can be copied and user defined templates can be created.

Actions with partition templates• View the Templates details• Edit the partition templates to customize the resources allocated to a partition. For example, you can

customize the partition template to be used for a particular workload or operating system type. You can change configurations like general settings, processor & memory, Virtual Network, Virtual Storage, Physical IO, Hardware Virtualized IO, Tagged IO.

• Copy a template and create a new one. For example, you can copy a starter template and create a new one to customize for the partition requirements

• Export the template which can later be imported on to another HMC. • Deploy the template to create, configure and activate the partition. • Delete the template

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Create Partition using Templates

• Once template & managed system is selected, a validation of template against the selected managed system is performed (Validation for capabilities, available CPU/Memory etc.,)

• Logical Partition Configuration Summary Tab : Partition Id, Name, Shared Processor Pool Name• Physical IO : Physical IO, HEA, SRIOV (Pre-selected Physical IO will be shown if Use Captured IO option is used)

• Network Configuration : Pre-selected Virtual Networks (Use Captured IO) or Available Virtual Networks• Virtual NIC Configuration : Pre-selected Virtual NIC (Use Captured IO) or Available VNIC• Virtual Storage Configuration :

• Virtual SCSI – Physical Volumes and Shared Storage Pool Logical Units• Virtual Fibre Channel

• IBM I Tagged IO• Summary :

• Activate or Apply Configuration

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Create Partition – Launch from Managed System Partitions View

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Create Partition – Quick/Simple Create (HMC V8 R8.6.0 or later)

Default Configuration for quick create :

1.Shared processor with

1. Minimum, Desired and Maximum Virtual Processors as 1.

2. Minimum, Desired and Maximum Processing Units as 0.1.

3. Uncapped sharing mode with weight as 128.

2.Memory with 1. Minimum memory as 1GB2. Desired memory as 1GB3. Maximum memory as 4GB

3.Maximum Virtual Adapters as 10

• Create a partition with minimal settings, helps in creating multiple partitions faster

Note : You need to attach the storage/network using manage partition before booting the partition

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Create Partition – Launch from Templates Library View

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Create Partition using Templates – LPAR Config

• Only partition name and ID can be edited at this step. Other details have to be specified/edited in the template itself

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Create Partition using Templates – Physical IO

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Create Partition using Templates – Virtual Network

Deploy process creates the Virtual Ethernet adapter with the vlan & vswitch of selected virtual networks

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Create Partition using Templates – Virtual NIC

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Create Partition using Templates – Virtual Storage• User needs to select only the storage or port to be assigned to the partition• Deploy process creates the required client & server adapter pair and maps storage/fc port• Selecting Assigned Physical Volumes option lists the Physical Volume which are already in use

• can be used when the same physical volume has to be shared across multiple partitions (Cluster or PowerHA or IBM DB2 Cluster Services)

• Edit Connections can be use to specify server adapter id or select redundancy

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Create Partition using Templates - Summary

Review the settings of the partition using the summary page before starting the create/activate process

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Create Partition using Templates – Activate/Apply

• Choose Create & Apply, if you want to create all the configuration and boot later. You can later activate the partition using the activate action under partition

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Create Partition using Templates - Notes

• Create partition from template is a halt on first failure operation. • After the partition template and managed system is selected, the wizard validates the configuration of

partition template against the selected managed system. Validation might fail in case of, • The capability selected in the template is not supported in the system• Non-availability of the requested configuration.• If any requested configuration is greater than available configurations. [Such as, requested

memory, processor configuration is greater than the processor or memory available.]• In case of failure, error message is shown and wizard waits for you to cancel the operation or navigate back

to make the changes and re-attempt the operation.• Not all attributes/options are editable as part of the create/deploy partition template wizard.• A partition template can be edited to choose the required configuration before deploy.

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Activate Partition

• Choose activate with profile or current configuration• Network boot supported for AIX/Linux Logical Partitions

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Create Virtual IO Server

A Virtual I/O Server partition can be created using,

1. System template

• Deploy System Template can be used to configure the system, create VIOS partitions specified in the system template, configure SRIOV, Physical I/O, Network Storage etc. and install the VIOS.

Note: When system template deploy is being used, it would initialize the system (i.e., delete all

the partitions on the system) first and then performs above mentioned configuration.

2. Create Virtual I/O Server wizard.• Add/create new VIOS Partitions as needed by using this option outside of the System Template

Deploy.• Create the VIOS partition and apply the configuration or proceed with installation of OS after the

creation

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Launch Create Virtual IO Server

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Manage Partition

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Manage Partition

• Resources -> All Systems -> <System Name> -> Partitions -> <Partition Name> • Resources -> All Partitions -> <Partition>• Work with Partition Properties, Capabilities, CPU, Memory, IO, Virtual IO (Storage,

Network, VNIC), Topology Diagrams• With the new model , user needs to work only with the partition and not worry about

profiles. The partition settings can be modified when partition is active or inactive

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Manage Partition - Actions and Menu Options

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Manage Partition - Quick Info

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Where is DLPAR performed? - Manage Partition - Properties

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Manage Partition – Processor

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Manage Partition – Memory

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Manage Partition – Physical IO

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Virtual Networks

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Virtual Networks

Enhanced UI Model Equivalent Legacy Model

Virtual Switch Virtual Switch

Virtual Network (New) VLAN + Vswitch Combination

Network Bridge Single SEA ( Non – Failover) or SEA Pair ( failover/ load balancing)

Load Group Trunk Adapter on SEA (non failover)or

Pair of Trunk Adapters with exact same configuration across two failover/load balancing SEAs

Link Aggregation Combine physical ports to make one single data path for higher bandwidth and to provide redundancy

Add Virtual Network to System

Internal or Bridged Network

Attach Partition to Virtual Network

Virtual Network Flow :

Tagged or Un-tagged Network

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Virtual Network – View System Virtual Networks

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Virtual Network – Add Virtual Network

Bridged & Untagged network

• Untagged – VLAN ID is used as PVID of the trunk adapter/SEA• Tagged – VLAN ID is used as additional VLAN ID of trunk adapter and you need to specify the

PVID of SEA in the next panel if a new Network Bridge is created. • Use Advanced settings to choose a different VSwitch or Create a new one

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• Specify failover or load sharing options• If Load sharing is enabled, specify the 2nd load group VLAN ID (PVID of 2nd trunk adapter)

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• Choose the adapters and specify the IP address to be configured on the SEA interface(s)

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• Use adapter view to choose slot numbers of trunk adapters, if needed

• Clicking on Finish will start the add network process and • Create a virtual network

(vlan + vswitchcombination)

• Create Trunk adapter(s) in the VIOS(s)

• Create SEA(s) by associating the selected physical adapters and trunk adapters

• Configure IP(s), if specified, for the SEA interface

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Virtual Network – Adding Virtual Network to Partition

Add or Remove Virtual Network

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Virtual Network – Adding Virtual Network to Partition

• “Show and assign new virtual ethernet adapters” allows you to see adapter id & specify adapter id for adding a new virtual network

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Virtual Storage

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Virtual Storage – View Virtual Storage

Resources > All Systems > <System Name> > Partitions > <Partition Name> > Virtual Storage

Resources > All Partitions > <Partition Name> > Virtual Storage

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Virtual Storage – Add Virtual SCSI• User needs to only select the storage and HMC creates the required server/client adapter pair and maps storage• Use Edit Connection to work with redundancy and specify/select slot id• Selecting Show assigned physical volumes lists the physical volumes already in use

• Can be used when the same physical volume has to be shared across multiple partitions (Cluster or PowerHA or IBM DB2 Cluster Services)

Virtual Target Device name

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Virtual Storage – Add Virtual FC

• User needs to only select the FC Port and HMC creates the required server/client adapter pair and maps FC port

• Use Edit Connections to specify WWPN

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Virtual Storage – Add Virtual Optical

• Media Repository has to be created as a pre-requisite• Use Edit Connections to specify/select server adapter id

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Topology Diagrams

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Export Network/Storage Topology Diagram

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System Virtual Networking Diagram

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System Virtual Storage Diagram

• Highlighted boxes show the mapping/paths

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Partition Virtual Storage Diagram

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Performance and Capacity Monitoring (PCM)

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• PCM available via REST API & GUI• To be enabled per system per HMC• User must have ManageUtilizationData task access to be able to change the PCM preference

settings• Long Term & Short Term Metrics

• Long Term – Collected every 30 seconds and purged after 30 minutes• Short Term – Collected every 5 seconds and purged after 30 minutes

• Raw, Processed & Aggregated Metrics• SSP PCM Metrics & Energy Metrics are available only via REST API

• Supported from HMC V8 R8.6.0 onwards• SSP Preference to be enabled individually apart from PCM enablement • Energy Metrics is supported on specific systems with FW 860.10 or later and gets

enabled if PCM is enabled on the system from the GUI or if Aggregation is enabled from the Rest API and can be enabled individually via the API as well.

• Rest API documentation at • https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/P8ESS/p8ehl/concepts/PerformanceCapacityMonitor.htm

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• Raw Metrics :• Raw stats• Collected every 30 seconds for Long Term Monitoring (LTM)• Retained for 30 minutes

• Processed Metrics :• Works on Raw Metrics and performs series of computations to generate processed date• Generated every 30 seconds & only if aggregation is enabled• Retained for 2 hours

• Aggregated Metrics :• Works on Processed Metrics• Average, Minimum, Maximum of processed metric is maintained in the aggregated metric

• PCM graphs can be used to • Monitor to capacity (Over/Optimal/Under allocation)• Monitor to take pro-active measures by using the trends shown in the graphs

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PCM – Quick View

Enable/Disable PCM

Launch PCM Dashboard

Time stamp when data was collected

Virtual network traffic for server (doesn’t include dedicated IO assigned to lpars)

Virtual storage traffic for server

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PCM – Server Overview

Shows Over/Optimal/Under allocation for partitions based on entitled & utilized

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PCM – Server Overview

Shows Over/Optimal/Under allocation for partitions based on entitled & utilized

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New in V8.860




PCM – Processor Utilization

Allocated or Assigned to Partitions

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PCM – Memory Utilization

Allocated to Partitions, System Firmware Memory & Memory Pool

Allocated to dedicated memory Partitions +system firmware memory

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PCM – Storage Utilization

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Console & Service Management

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HMC Management

• Menu Options which were under the HMC Management section in Classic View are listed under different options in Enhanced UI• Console Settings – Network settings, Locale, welcome text, date & time• Console Management – License, Update HMC, Backup/Restore, Save

Upgrade• User & Roles – Working with users, tasks/resource roles. • Systems & Console security – LDAP, Kerberos, Remote access• Serviceability – View Management Console events

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HMC Management

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HMC Management

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HMC Management

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Service Management

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• http://www.ibm.com/training/events

• Blog Links :

• What's new in HMC V8 R8.6.0

• HMC V8 R8.6.0 Enhanced UI Updates

• Shared Storage Pool Management with HMC

• Creating Partition with Partition Templates in HMC

• Virtual Network Management with HMC Enhanced UI

• PowerVM Performance Monitoring – What's New In HMC R8 V8.6.0

• Related Sessions :

• p015010 – HMC Security & Auditing – Wednesday (24th May 2017) 4.30 – 5.30 PM – Sabal A

• p015007 – Power Systems Management Roadmap – Thursday (25th May 2017) 1.45 – 2.45 PM – Sabal D &

Monday (22nd May 2017) 3.15 – 4.15 PM – Sabal D

Session reference links

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