Terminal and console options for logical partitions

You can initiate a terminal or console session to the logical partitions on your managed system using a variety of methods. Your choice of terminal or console depends on your operating system and business needs.

The following choices of terminal or console are available for each operating system.

Operating system	Terminal or console options
AIX^®	Hardware Management Console (HMC) Local connect on the HMC Remote connect using Web-based System Manager Telnet OpenSSH with OpenSSL (included in the AIX expansion pack) Direct serial connection (ASCII terminal or PC connected with null modem cable) i5/OS^® virtual console (for AIX logical partitions that use i5/OS resources) When on a system with a Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) partition, the console can be provided by the VIOS partition when using VIOS 1.2.0 or later.
i5/OS	HMC Local connect on the HMC Remote connect using iSeries™ Access Operations Console Operations Console LAN Operations Console Directly attached Twinaxial console
Linux^®	HMC Local connect on the HMC Remote connect using Web-based System Manager Telnet OpenSSH with OpenSSL (included in the Linux distribution) Direct serial connection (ASCII terminal or PC connected with null modem cable) i5/OS virtual console (for Linux logical partitions that use i5/OS resources) When on a system with a Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) partition, the console can be provided by the VIOS partition when using VIOS 1.2.0 or later.
Virtual I/O Server	Hardware Management Console (HMC) Local connect on the HMC Remote connect using Web-based System Manager Telnet OpenSSH with OpenSSL (included in the AIX expansion pack) Direct serial connection (ASCII terminal or PC connected with null modem cable) i5/OS virtual console (for AIX logical partitions that use i5/OS resources) When on a system with a Virtual I/O Server (VIOS) partition, the console can be provided by the VIOS partition when using VIOS 1.2.0 or later.

Hardware Management Console terminal and console options
The HMC provides virtual terminal emulation for AIX and Linux logical partitions and virtual 5250 console emulation for i5/OS logical partitions
Integrated Virtualization Manager terminal and console options
The Integrated Virtualization Manager is a browser-based system management interface for Virtual I/O Server that allows you to create and manage AIX and Linux logical partitions on a single IBM^® eServer™ p5 or IBM System p5™ server or Linux logical partitions on a single IBM eServer OpenPower™ server. The Integrated Virtualization Manager is supported only on select IBM eServer p5, IBM System p5, and IBM eServer OpenPower server models.
Operations Console for i5/OS logical partitions
Operations Console allows you to use a local or remote PC to access i5/OS on logical partitions and is an installable component of iSeries Access for Windows^®.
Twinaxial console for i5/OS logical partitions
The twinaxial console uses a basic command-line interface to access i5/OS on logical partitions. It does not require the use of a PC to act as a console.

Parent topic: Physical and virtual hardware resources