As a workaround, I have disabled the fscsi1 path on VIOA server and it I don't see any errors. However, I noticed all I/O's going thru just 1 path (path0) of the adapter (fscsi3) . I was expecting the I/o to be balanced between Path0 and Path2 for hdisk3 .
Can anyone recommend me some reading material surrounding how AIX handles LUNs:
- with and without MPIO installed
- with and without SDD or SDDPCM installed
Where does lspath sit in all of this (MPIO layer?). Can a system be built with just MPIO software? Is MPIO software even needed?
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Hi,
I want to know wheather partition size for installation of vio client can be specified on vio server
example
If I am installing vio server on blade with 2*300gb hard disk,after that I want to create 2 vio client (AIX Operating system) wheather I can specify hard disk size while... (1 Reply)
Hi folks.
We want to move a "physical" AIX box to a VIOed LPAR. The physical box is running SDD with disks from a DS8300. I want to be able to reattach those LUNs from the DS8300 to my VIO server which is running SDDPCM and then assigned them back to my AIX LPAR. Any thoughts about this?
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Hi Guys,
I'm working on building a new 595 machine.. I'm try to achieve high availability for the VIO clients using 2 VIO servers, The ethernet part is satisfied using SEA failover, Now how do I achieve redundancy for the disks, its the servers internal disk attached to the scsi cards...
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We have AIX 6.1 system attached to SAN disks (DS4700 and DS8100) thru SVC.
Initially when the system was I forgot to install sddpcm drivers. and wanted to know how can i go with the installation of the sddpcm drivers.
My understandin going thru the manual ... (3 Replies)
I am planning carving out dual VIO servers on a P750 based and would like to know how to allocate internal disks to the VIOS. This has 4 internal disks and I would to assign 2 disks to each VIO.
This is what I was thinking of assigning . Any advise?
vio1
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I am working in AIX. In a P series machine both aix and linux os can install.. specific command is there for aix to list out the vio servers details mapped in a frame(ie. lssrc "IBM.ManagementServer", like that..) is there any command is der to list out vio servers details in linux or how to find... (1 Reply)
Hi
In the vio server when I do # lsattr -El hdisk*, I get a PVID. The same PVID is also seen when I put the lspv command on the vio client partition. This way Im able to confirm the lun using the PVID.
Similarly how does the vio client partition gets the virtual ethernet scsi client adapter... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I am facing an issue in vio server. When I run
bosboot -ad /dev/hdisk0
I am getting an error
trustchk: Verification of attributes failed: /usr/sbin/bootinfo
: accessauths
regards,
vjm
Please use code tags next time for your code and data. (8 Replies)
This is getting very confusing for me, and appreciate if someone can help.
Platform: Power VM ( Virtual I/O Server)
ioslevel 2.1.3.10-FP23
# oslevel -s
6100-05-00-0000
Storage: IBM DS4300
Two HBAs - Dual Port Fibre Adapter Channels
Each card has two ports , so a total of 4 ports going... (3 Replies)