Criteria for selecting which Hardware Management Console interface to use
The Hardware Management Console (HMC) provides more than one interface that you can use to manage your virtual environment.
HMC Classic interface
The HMC Classic interface is the continuation of the interface that was provided in previous versions of the HMC. The HMC Classic interface supports many of the same tasks as the HMC Enhanced interface, such as managing servers, partitions, and adapters.
The HMC Classic interface is not supported in Hardware Management Console (HMC) Version 8.7.0, or later. The functions that were previously available in the HMC Classic interface are now available in the HMC Enhanced+ interface.
HMC Enhanced interface
- Deploying a system.
- Creating a partition.
- Capturing a system or partition configuration as a template.
- Running Template Library management functions, including edit, copy, import, and export.
HMC Enhanced+ interface
The HMC Enhanced+ software interface provides new navigation paths to tasks that are common to the HMC Classic interface and the HMC Enhanced interface, and some functions that are unique to the HMC Enhanced+ interface. The new tasks and functions include enhanced Activate task for partitions and Virtual I/O Servers with network boot and network installation options, and graphical representation of the virtual network that represents the relationship between various components in the network for a system.
| Task type | Task | Menu procedure for the HMC Classic interface | Menu procedure for the HMC Enhanced interface | Menu procedure for the HMC Enhanced+ interface |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Virtualization: server | Changing your shared processor pool configurations or settings of your servers. | |||
| Changing your shared memory pool configurations or settings of your servers. | ||||
| Changing your reserved storage device pool configurations or settings of your servers. | ||||
| Changing your virtual storage configurations or settings of your servers. | ||||
| Changing your virtual network configurations or settings of your servers. | ||||
| Changing your host Ethernet adapter configurations or settings of your servers. | ||||
| Changing your host Channel adapter configurations or settings of your servers. | ||||
| Changing your SR-IOV adapter configurations or settings of your servers. | ||||
| Creating an AIX® or Linux partition. | ||||
| Creating an IBM® i partition. | ||||
| Creating a VIOS partition. | ||||
| Virtualization: partition | Applying a different profile to an existing partition. | You can apply a configuration or profile by using the Manage Partition menu item, if there is no active profile. | You can apply a configuration or profile by using the View Partition Properties menu item, if there is no active profile. | |
| Viewing or changing the properties of a partition. | ||||
| Changing the processor properties of a running partition. | ||||
| Changing the memory properties of a running partition. | ||||
| Changing the physical I/O properties of a running partition. | ||||
| Changing the SR-IOV configuration properties of a running partition. | ||||
| Changing the host Ethernet adapter configuration properties of a running partition. | ||||
| Changing the properties of a host Ethernet adapter. | ||||
| Viewing the properties of a host channel adapter. | ||||
| Viewing the properties of an SR-IOV adapter. | ||||
| Viewing the properties of a virtual Fibre Channel adapter. | ||||
| Viewing the properties of a virtual SCSI adapter. | ||||
| Viewing the properties of a virtual Ethernet adapter. | ||||
| Management: partition and Virtual I/O Server | Modifying the Attention LED. |
