Create Versioned Workload Partition wizard

Use this interface to create Versioned Workload Partitions. Versioned Workload Partitions run an AIX® version that is older than the AIX version of the global system. This has an impact on some of the settings for Versioned WPARs.

Most of the fields used to create workload partitions are common between versioned and non-versioned WPARs. For more information about such fields, refer Create Workload Partition Wizard
The following links describe the information relevant for Versioned WPARs:

Version

Use this page to select the mksysb image from which the Versioned WPAR will be created.

Fields

Root of image repository
Provide the path to an image repository on the global system and click Load. Select an image from the table.
An image repository is a directory on the global system that might contain a number of mksysb images created from legacy AIX environments. The mksysb images can be used in the creation of a versioned WPAR. On this panel you can provide a path to an image repository located on the global system and click the Load button to search for files in the image repository. The table displays the list of files identified in the image repository. The user should select the appropriate mksysb image from the list in the table. This legacy mksysb image is used to create the versioned workload partition.
Install image files
Additional install image files are required to support Versioned WPARs. By default these files are located in /usr/sys/inst.images on the global system.

Filesystem

Use this page to define the filesystems for the new Versioned WPAR. For non-checkpointable WPARs, you can choose to use the filesystems defined in the mksysb image, or override the filesystems in the mksysb image by defining new filesystems. Checkpointable, non-rootvg WPARs need to be defined with NFS-based filesystems.

Fields

Filesystem definitions in the mksysb image
Select whether you want to reuse the filesystem definitions in the mksysb image, or ignore those definitions. If you choose to ignore the filesystem definitions in the mksysb image, you have to configure all required filesystems in the table.

Advanced

Fields

Version
JFS expansion factor
Specify the expansion factor to be applied to the size of any compressed JFS file systems contained in the mksysb image that the Workload Partition will be created from. Any JFS file system will be converted to JFS2, which does not support compression. To enable the content of a compressed file system to fit into a JFS2 file system that is not compressed, an expansion factor may be specified to multiply the size of the file system. Valid values are integers from 1 to 8. The default value is 1, which does not result in any change in the file system.