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Partition Manager Help

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Features & Capabilities

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Features & Capabilities
»About Partitioning
»Starting & Stopping
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»Partition Scope
»Cell Scope
»I/O Chassis Scope
»Actions
»Status Indicators
»Messages
»Release Notes
»About Partition Manager
»Glossary
»Using Help
» Graphical User Interface
» Manage System Hardware
» Remote Management
» Step-by-Step Guidance Through Complex Tasks

This help topic presents a brief explanation of the key features and capabilities of Partition Manager. For information about using the Partition Manager interface, refer to the overview help topic.

Graphical User Interface

Partition Manager dynamically generates graphical representations of your system's hardware components, nPartitions, and available resources.

Partition Manager helps you perform complex configuration tasks without having to remember commands and parameters. You select nPartitions, cells, I/O chassis, or other components from the graphical display, then select an action from a menu. The actions available from the menu are always appropriate to the current view and the selected objects.

Partition Manager displays the command(s) that it uses to perform configuration tasks. You can use this feature to help you learn the command syntax, and to construct scripts to automate frequently-performed tasks.

Manage System Hardware

Use Partition Manager to view your server's hardware inventory and the status of hardware components. Partition Manager detects and reports configuration problems in your complex.

Partition Manager helps you configure and maintain your complex.

  • Change the name of the complex.

  • Create, remove, and modify nPartitions.

  • Power on and off individual cells and I/O chassis.

  • Manage cell and I/O chassis attention indicators.

  • Add and replace PCI devices in nPartitions.

Remote Management

Partition Manager is a Web-based application. You can use Partition Manager from any supported Web browser with WBEM access to the complex being managed. For information about supported configurations, refer to the the starting & stopping help topic.

Step-by-Step Guidance Through Complex Tasks

Partition Manager walks you through each step in the creation of nPartitions.

All actions performed by Partition Manager are tracked in a log file that can be viewed at any time.