How do you coordinate resource needs with business processes across partitions?

IBM LPAR technology is so popular today that most IBM System i users have adopted it. But this technology also creates issues, such as how to integrate your business processing with the movement of your LPAR resources.

The Hardware Management Console (HMC) is an LPAR tool that lets you move resources manually or schedule their movement based on time and date. However, when you move LPAR resources manually to share tape drives or memory, mistakes that cause major problems can happen. The question is how to automate resource movement. Can you use your System i to move a hardware resource, such as a tape drive, automatically when a backup job finishes? Can you automate processor movement as part of end‑of‑month business procedures?

Robot/LPAR, version 2, works directly with the HMC on Power 5 or Power 6 System i servers to integrate your System i processes with your LPAR technology. You can use Robot/LPAR to set or adjust resource levels or to move memory, processors, or devices using either a batch scheduler (like Robot/SCHEDULE) or a CL program (see Figure 1).

Figure 1: Use Robot/LPAR to move system resources where they're needed--automatically.

Automate Your Tape Drive Movement

The best automation is event‑driven automation; the end of one process triggers the start of the next process. With Robot/LPAR, you can move a device, such as a tape drive, from one System i partition to another, as the need arises. You use the Robot/LPAR Put I/O Resource (LPRPUTIOR) command (see Figure 2) in a Robot/SCHEDULE job or a CL program, and Robot/LPAR moves your device automatically when your backup jobs finish.

Figure 2: Use the Robot/LPAR Put I/O Resource command to move devices to a specified partition.

See how Robot/LPAR can make your life easier by automating the movement of your partition resources. Give it a FREE 30‑day trial. And check out Help/Systems' other offerings in the MC Showcase Buyer's Guide.

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Tom Huntington is Executive Vice President of Technical Solutions at HelpSystems, and has been with the company for nearly 30 years. He works with business alliances, acquisitions and large customer relationships and ensures that the HelpSystems software works with other major software and hardware vendors worldwide.

Tom often speaks on enterprise scheduling, security, automation topics, IBM i technology, and the HelpSystems products, and hosts technical presentations on a variety of automation topics. He is the author of the HelpSystems IBM i Marketplace Survey and has written articles on automated operations, security, cloud computing, and business intelligence for leading trade journals and newsletters. He was named an IBM Champion in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020 for over three decades of advocation and thought leadership on the IBM i platform.

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