HardWare Management Console Commands & overview

HMC Overview and Commands:
Hardware management Console Simply HMC. With help of HMC We can manage all our Logical Partitions and managed servers. This is Linced product that trademark of IBM.
Supported OS Platforms: IBM Unix (AIX) and Linux.
Features:
1. Manage all your logical and physical Servers under a comman point.
2.Powering off/On on servers.
3.Capacity on demand and virtuvalazation.
4.LPAR Creation and resource management (increase or decrease CPU/ Memory and N/W ).
5.Firmware installations and Upgrades (Firmware upgrade from HMC console is more faster
compare to normal server console).

HMC Interfaces:
HMC v7 Supports Web Based and Command line interfaces. Firefox will be nice one for fast and easy Browsing.
Note : HMC super admin is hscroot and default password is abc123.

HMC Types: we have two different types of HMC's currently avilable in Market
1.7042-C06 Desktop type HMC 2.7042-CR4 is Rack Mounted HMC.
7042-C06 has faster CPU's and twice the RAM as compared to 7042-CR4 (Large Enterprise).

HMC Max Considertations:
1.Maximum of 48 non 590/595 servers are Supported.
2.A Maximum of 32 590/595 Servers are supported.
3.For all systems the MX number of LPAR's is 254.
4.Max 2 HMC's can support one server at a time.

Some Of the Most Useful HMC Commands:
Consider here my HMC server name is subha and my managed system is reddy and My LPAR is rendla.

1.To cerify the version of your $lshmc -V (Will show Version Number and release Info).
Note:Power4 won't supports v3.x, v4.x supports Power5 & v7.x Supports Power6 and Higher.