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What infrastructure is necessary to support update installation to an existing IVM instance?
The correct answer is D. Network Install Manager. Updating an existing IVM instance requires NIM because IVM itself has no built-in update mechanism and depends on NIM to deliver and apply maintenance packages.
Question
What infrastructure is necessary to support update installation to an existing IVM instance?
Options
- AHardware Management Console
- BSystems Director Management Console
- CIBM Systems Director
- DNetwork Install Manager
- ECluster Systems Manager
How the community answered
(23 responses)- A4% (1)
- B9% (2)
- C17% (4)
- D70% (16)
Why each option
Updating an existing IVM instance requires NIM because IVM itself has no built-in update mechanism and depends on NIM to deliver and apply maintenance packages.
The HMC manages external servers but cannot be used to apply software updates to an IVM instance; IVM and HMC are mutually exclusive management models on a given server.
The SDMC provides systems management and automation but is not the required mechanism for delivering or installing updates to an IVM instance.
IBM Systems Director is a higher-level infrastructure management platform and does not serve as the delivery mechanism for IVM firmware or software updates.
IVM (Integrated Virtualization Manager) does not have a self-contained update facility; it requires a NIM server to host the update resources and push maintenance levels to the IVM partition, making NIM the only supported infrastructure for applying updates to an existing IVM instance.
Cluster Systems Manager is used for managing AIX cluster environments and has no role in applying updates to a standalone IVM instance.
Concept tested: IVM update delivery via NIM infrastructure
Source: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/powervm/3.1.0?topic=ivm-updating
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