What Is a System Plan?

A system plan is either a representation of the hardware and partition configuration currently on a system, or a plan for deployment of hardware and configuration of partitions on a system, depending on how the system plan file is generated.

• A system plan generated from an existing POWER5 or POWER6 system using the HMC will reflect the actual LPAR configuration of the server at that point in time. If all the partitions are active, there will be more detail than if one or more partitions are not active.
• A system plan generated by the IBM System Planning Tool (SPT) will reflect the intended LPAR configuration for a target server.

A sample HMC system plan screen is shown at left.