Using the quick start guides to manage your system

To manage your Lenovo Converged System, you can also use the quick start guides that have step-by-step instructions. These quick start guides also include information about how to manage your Lenovo Converged System environment and how to use your hardware to achieve your business goals.

Your Lenovo Converged System purchase included a certain level of configuration that is done by manufacturing and additional configuration by the Services Team. The following table contains some of the goals that you might want to achieve with your Lenovo Converged System. The table also includes links to the quick start guides that you can follow to help you achieve those goals. You might want to use some of these quick start guides as reference when you are adding more components to your Lenovo Converged System.
Table 1. Goals and corresponding quick start guides
If you want to... Follow these steps and quick start guides
Learn to navigate and use the Flex System Manager software To learn to navigate and use the Flex System Manager software, go to ../com.ibm.acc.commontasks.doc/commontasks_navigating_fsm.html and select the following PDFs:
  • Navigating the Flex System Manager management software
  • Finding and navigating resources.
Set up your virtualization environment To learn to set up your virtualization environment, follow these steps:
  1. Install agents that are needed for VMControl (RHEL, KVM, and VMware ESXi. Go to ../com.ibm.acc.commontasks.doc/commontasks_virtualization.html and select the Installing agents that are needed for VMControl PDF.
  2. Discover storage resources. Go to ../com.ibm.acc.commontasks.doc/commontasks_virtualization.html and select the Discovering Storwize V7000 storage resources PDF.
  3. Configure network resources to support virtual server relocation. Go to ../com.ibm.acc.commontasks.doc/commontasks_virtualization.html and select the Configuring network resources to support deployment and virtual server relocation PDF. Perform the setup steps in this guide, then choose one of these tasks:
  4. Create an image repository. Go to ../com.ibm.acc.commontasks.doc/commontasks_virtualization.html and select the Creating an image repository PDF.
Install a guest operating system into a virtual server on an X-Architecture compute node (by using local storage) To learn to install a guest operating system into a virtual server on an X-Architecture compute node (by using local storage), follow these steps:
  1. Optional: Configure a virtual Network Interface Controller (vNIC) or a virtual LAN:
  2. Install a hypervisor on the compute node. Go to ../com.ibm.acc.commontasks.doc/commontasks_install_os.html and select the Installing an operating system on an X-Architecture compute node PDF.
  3. Install agents that are needed for VMControl. Go to ../com.ibm.acc.commontasks.doc/commontasks_virtualization.html and select the Installing agents that are needed for VMControl PDF.
  4. Create a virtual server. Go to ../com.ibm.acc.commontasks.doc/commontasks_virtualization.html and select the Create a virtual server PDF.
  5. Install a guest operating system on a virtual server. Go to ../com.ibm.acc.commontasks.doc/commontasks_virtualization.html and select the Installing a guest operating system into a virtual server PDF.
Manage your hardware (including updates to the software and firmware on your various components and collecting logs and service data) To learn to manage your hardware, go to ../com.ibm.acc.commontasks.doc/commontasks_managing_hw.html and select the appropriate PDF links under Performing updates and Working with logs and service data.
Keep your environment operating smoothly To learn to keep your environment operating smoothly, perform the following actions:
Monitor the status of your environment and automate responses to problems To learn how to monitor the status of your environment and automate responses to problems, see the following information:
Perform basic virtualization tasks (such as creating a virtual server and installing an operating system on a virtual server) To perform basic virtualization tasks, go to ../com.ibm.acc.commontasks.doc/commontasks_virtualization.html and select the appropriate virtualization quick start guide.
Relocate virtual servers automatically when a host is undergoing maintenance, in response to a hardware failure, or to maximize the use of resources To relocate virtual servers automatically, perform the following steps.
  1. Create and populate a server system pool. Go to ../com.ibm.acc.commontasks.doc/commontasks_virtualization.html and select the Creating and populating a server system pool PDF under Advanced virtualization tasks.
  2. Deploy a workload. Go to ../com.ibm.acc.commontasks.doc/commontasks_virtualization.html and select the Deploy a workload PDF under Advanced virtualization tasks.
  3. Set up a server system pool that supports relocation. Go to ../com.ibm.acc.commontasks.doc/commontasks_virtualization.html and select the Creating a system pool that supports relocation PDF under Advanced virtualization tasks.
Parent topic: Managing your system