Sample Plan for LPAR with two disks

IBM® Endpoint Manager for Server Automation provides a sample Automation Plan for building a functioning PowerVM® logical partition (LPAR) and adding hard disks. Using this Automation Plan, you can provision an LPAR on a PowerVM Managed System, install an operating system image, netboot the LPAR, deploy an IBM Endpoint Manager agent, and add a second hard disk to the LPAR.

Procedure

  1. Open the Server Automation domain.
  2. From the Domain Panel, select Automation Plans.
  3. In the Automation Plans dashboard, enter 146 in the filter text box and press the Enter key.
  4. From the Automation Plans list, select the Build AIX LPAR with 2 disks Sample Automation Plan.
  5. Click Copy to copy the Automation Plan and then save the copy that you have just created.
  6. To run the Automation Plan, click Take Action. The following table shows each step of the Plan and provides links to more information about each step.
    Table 1. Steps in Sample Plan
    Step Task ID Name More Information
    1 1018 PowerVM Create a Logical Partition (LPAR) Creating a Logical Partition (LPAR)
    2 3020 PowerVM Create a NIM client for a Logical Partition (LPAR) on a NIM Master Server Creating a NIM client for an LPAR on a NIM server
    3 1019 PowerVM Netboot a Logical Partition (LPAR) Netbooting a logical partition
    4 1581 Deploy Endpoint Manager Agent Visit the IBM Endpoint Manager Wiki https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/Tivoli%20Endpoint%20Manager/page/Windows%20Agent%20Deployment%20Tasks%20%28Console%29
    5 1026 PowerVM Add disk to a Logical Partition (LPAR) Adding a disk to an LPAR
  7. Click OK to run the Plan.

Results

The Automation Plan runs.