Edit: Some links no longer work
Originally posted February 20, 2018 on AIXchange
Alan Fulton (@The_Iron_Monger) tweeted the link to this information on GUI options in the new HMC. As the classic view we’re all used to goes away, you should explore this doc that clocks in at a tidy 15 pages:
Introduction
Menus Available – Enhanced GUI Only
Enhanced GUI Path New Features
Classic GUI to Enhanced GUI Mapping
Main Menu Navigation
Managing Servers -> All Actions
Managing Servers
Managed System Advanced Options
Partition Management
Partition Properties
Serviceability Options
Capacity Upgrade On Demand
Groups and Power Enterprise Pools
Management of the HMC and Administration
Service Management/Serviceability
August 2017 Code Update
Enhanced GUI Advantages
Network Topology
Storage Topology
Optional views for System and LPAR Objects
Box View
List View
Shortcuts to menus
Resources and Performance Dashboard
Additional Information and firmware level
Relational view Tasks LogThe appendix has some links as well that you’ll find particularly useful:
- Nigel’s HMC 870 Enhanced GUI demo
- How to Dynamically Add/Remove Virtual Ethernet Adapters Using the New HMC “Enhanced” GUI
- How to DLPAR Virtual Fibre Channel Adapters Using the HMC Enhanced GUI
- HMC V8 enhanced: Initiating a System Dump
- How to Initiate a Resource Dump from the HMC – V8 Enhanced GUI
- HMC Version 7 and later: Retrieving an FSP or System Dump Using the HMC
- Performing a Main Storage Dump (MSD) on an HMC Managed Server
- 8 Enhanced: Creating a customerized task role to allow HMC 5250 Remote Console
- HMC V8 R8.6.0 Enhanced UI Updates
- Synchronize Current Configuration and configuration change on inactive partition in HMC Enhanced UI
- Partition Virtual Storage Management using HMC Enhanced UI
- Virtual Network Management with HMC Enhanced UI
Be sure to read it over.