Tips using HMC for VMWare Users

Creating a Virtual Machine is a necessary step of most of software development process. The reason is that we want to optimalise our hardware use, to isolate one application instance from another application instance running in the same hardware. For that purpose I recently tried to create a VM instance in an IBM machine, a PowerVM. Creating such VM is quite different than creating such VM in VMWare, and this post will show some tips when facing challenges creating a PowerVM. HMC Console First, we need to access HMC (Hardware Management Console), which is the interface from where we configure our hardware and logical partitions. One HMC could manage more than one system (which stands for a single box of server hardware). Choose Resource >> All Systems to get an overview of which systems are available to manage. From the HMC we could create a new Logical Partition. The menu path is : Resource >> All Systems >> [ choose system ], then by clicking on Cre...