Requirements for discovering logical partitions

Last published : Jun 19, 2026
Logical partition (LPAR) virtualization discovery pre-requisites are as follows:
For basic LPAR discovery you need to:
  • Add Hardware Management Console (HMC) to Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager domain by control host.
  • Configure the required storage arrays (providing storage to the LPAR servers) using the Storage Insight Add-on. This is required to discover the correlation of storage inside the VIO server with the storage arrays.
  • For VIO servers with Arctera dynamic multi-pathing installed: Install the VRTSsfmhpackage on the VIO servers and configure them in Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager as agents.
  • You must have at least hmcoperator role in HMC to perform these tasks.
    Note: The Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager supports only legitimate filename characters in an LPAR profile name. The special characters reserved for Operating System usage (for example space, "\", "$", "!", "&") are not supported. It is recommended to use upper and lower case alphabets, numeric values (0-9), "_" and "-" for the LPAR profile name.
For storage correlation discovery, in addition to the above mentioned pre-requisites, ensure that:
  • You configure LPAR guests with VRTSsfmh package. It provides the discovery of correlation of storage inside LPAR guests with that exported from the VIO servers.
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