Are AIX servers with LPARs VM?

[Bill_L]

Should AIX LPARs be considered as Virtual servers? If so, it doesn't seem that Business rule 'Virtual Computer Check' set "is virtual" attribute properly for AIX? If not, what are criteria SN is using to determine if an AIX server is virtual or physical? Thanks.

[robertgeen · Accepted solution]

It has been a while since I last looked at AIX but I believe out of the box it doesn't mark them as virtual as their is no indication when it is discovered. I know in the past clients have done it by discovering the IBM HMC topology which in that script it actually marked them as virtual. Hope this helps.

[Bill_L]

Thank you, Robertgeen. It does help

[robertgeen]

One other thing if you search the community forums you should see the post for IBM HMC Topology discovery. I know Doug was big on posting it and keeping it up to date. Some modification has to be done on it to get it to work with your environment but as far as I saw at past clients it works quite well :).

[Phil32]

Have you gotten Discovery to gather data about the P-Series server (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER8)?