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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
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<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
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xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="5.0"
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xml:id="powervm">
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<title>PowerVM</title>
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<?dbhtml stop-chunking?>
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<section xml:id="powervm-intro">
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<title>Introduction</title>
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<para>PowerVM compute driver connects to an Integrated Virtualization
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Manager (IVM) to perform PowerVM Logical Partition (LPAR)
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deployment and management. The driver supports file-based deployment
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using images from Glance.</para>
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<note><para>Hardware Management Console (HMC) is not yet supported.</para></note>
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<para>For more detailed information about PowerVM Virtualization system,
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refer to the IBM Redbook publication:
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<link xlink:href="http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247940.html">
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IBM PowerVM Virtualization Introduction and Configuration</link>.</para>
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</section>
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<section xml:id="powervm-config">
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<title>Configuration</title>
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<para>To enable the PowerVM compute driver, add the following configuration
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options <filename>/etc/nova/nova.conf</filename>:
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<programlisting language="ini">compute_driver=nova.virt.powervm.PowerVMDriver
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powervm_mgr_type=ivm
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powervm_mgr=powervm_hostname_or_ip_address
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powervm_mgr_user=padmin
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powervm_mgr_passwd=padmin_user_password
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powervm_img_remote_path=/path/to/remote/image/directory
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powervm_img_local_path=/path/to/local/image/directory/on/compute/host</programlisting>
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</para>
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<xi:include href="tables/nova-powervm.xml"/>
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</section>
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<section xml:id="powervm-limits">
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<title>Limitations</title>
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<para>
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PowerVM LPARs names have a limit of 31 characters. Since Nova instance names
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are mapped to LPAR names in Power Systems, make sure instance_name_template
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config option in nova.conf yields names that have 31 or fewer characters.
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</para>
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</section>
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</section>
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