To install a customer-supplied operating system to a partition on a partitionable enterprise partition platform (PEPP),
Create operating system images from your own operating system installers with the utilities provided by Unisys.
For more information, see
Use the Fabric Manager user interface to add the operating system images and corresponding blueprint images to the appropriate platform.
For more information, see Uploading Customer-Supplied Operating System Images to Fabric Manager, Adding a Gold Image, and Adding a Blueprint.
Commission a partition image that uses your operating system image on that platform.
For more information, see Overview of Commissioning a Partition and Commissioning a Partition Image.
Note: For more information on creating secure fabrics, refer to Creating a Secure Fabric.
After configuring and customizing the operating system and application operating environment, including bringing data LUNs (disks) online, be sure to back up your partition. For more information, see Backing Up Application Operating Environments on Partitionable Enterprise Partition Platforms.
Note: When configuring a software firewall on a partition image, ensure that you configure the firewall to allow incoming ping requests through the ClearPath Forward Management LAN (FM LAN). The Fabric Manager monitors the health status of a partition image through ping checks; if the ping requests on the FM LAN to the partition image are blocked by a firewall, the Fabric Manager displays a warning state for the partition image’s health (but does not generate an event).