Re: Andible on HMC

[Amaljith PM <amaljithh@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Roberto,

Thank you so much for sharing the learning resources.

Surely will go through it.

I'm trying to collect all of the information I can regarding the HMC as
well as ansible modules for documentation purposes.

This will help for sure.

Regards,
Amaljith

On Thu, 6 May 2021, 5:59 pm Roberto José Etcheverry Romero, <
yggdrasil.raiker@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Amaljith,
> Before trying to automate something, you should understand it fully, at
> least in my opinion.
> Creating an LPAR is not just sending a command to the HMC to create it,
> there are a lot of steps involved in provisioning a VM, just like in any
> other Hypervisor.
> There are a lot of resources available to learn about Power Systems and one
> of them are the videos by Nigel:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iiv5lQ0iaIg&list=PLrSnhukui338SqBuLO6uRqomlWGCE-QAO
> That one is a bit old since it only covers up to Power6, but it explains
> lots of concepts about the family.
> Be also aware that on Power you can run various OSes, AIX, Linux, and IBM
> i. This list mostly focuses on IBM i but since the HMC manages the entire
> system it is also on-topic but most of the automation available will be
> geared towards AIX and Linux.
> I wish you luck in this learning journey!
>
> Roberto
>
>
> On Thu, 6 May 2021 at 02:55, Amaljith PM <amaljithh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Yes that's exactly what I'm trying to do with ansible. Ansible runs on
> > another machine and it does ssh to HMC and perform it's scripts.
> >
> > And yes I'm relatively new to this platform. I came across this module
> > called 'powervm_lpar_instance' which can perform a variety of functions.
> >
> > I'm trying to create a partition with this module, it needs parameters
> > system_name and vm_name. I learned that system name is the partition
> name,
> > but not sure what vm name means.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Amaljith PM
> >
> > On Wed, 5 May 2021, 10:29 pm , <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > Why?
> > >
> > > The HMC is not a place where you do development.  You might write
> scripts
> > > to
> > > perform functions such as start a flashcopy etc. but those events are
> > > better
> > > handled with a program running elsewhere and using ssh to log in and
> > enter
> > > the commands, like IBM i for instance.....
> > >
> > > Based on your question, you are new to POWER and the HMC, otherwise you
> > > would know that those name value pairs are.   Are you trying to
> correlate
> > > the system_name and vm_name as ansible variables to what those names
> > might
> > > be in HMC command name value pairs?
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Jim Oberholtzer
> > > Agile Technology Architects
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of
> > > Amaljith PM
> > > Sent: Wednesday, May 5, 2021 11:41 AM
> > > To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <
> midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Subject: Andible on HMC
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Is there anyone using Ansible with HMC? If yes please let me know what
> > is a
> > > system_name and vm_name in powervm_lpar_instance.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Amaljith
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