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Operating Systems AIX PowerVM/lpar creation problems Post 302942730 by dukessd on Thursday 30th of April 2015 08:37:24 PM

04-30-2015

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"This is planning. We assume for now, that you've read the documentation."

Sounds like you are giving the whole machine to the first VIO logical partition, so there is no hardware to install another... and you cannot run a "WPAR" on a VIO server...

Not being rude but it does sound like a basic understanding deficiency of how PowerVM works.

>>>>read the docs.....

Make a PowerVM/VIO LPAR with one ethernet adapter, one scsi adapter with a disk, maybe a fibre adapter. Install PowerVM/VIO on it.

Do it again.... so you have a redundant/dual VIO server layer.

Then on both of these VIO servers virtualise some form of storage, vscsi, npiv, lvm, for the client LPARS.

Set up SEA adapters on the dual VIO servers, so you have redundant networking for your client partitions.

Set up virtual ethernet, vlans, Etc. for the clients to use.

Then configure your client LPARs partition profiles for your AIX / IBM i / LINUX client LPARs.

Then boot and install them....

Any of this sound even remotely familiar...

If not then at least you have some terms to google for help.

It's not really like any other form of server virtualisation but it is by far the best.

Good place to start reading:
IBM PowerVM - Getting Started Guide

HTH

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iprinit

IPRINIT(8)						      System Manager's Manual							IPRINIT(8)

NAME

       iprinit - IBM Power RAID adapter/device initialization utility

SYNOPSIS

       iprinit

       iprinit --debug --daemon --use-polling --use-uevents

DESCRIPTION

       iprinit	is  used to setup IBM Power RAID adapters and devices for optimal performance. It will enable U320 scsi speeds if it is determined
       the disk enclosure supports it. It will also enable tagged command  queuing.   Any  scsi  bus  attributes,  such  as  bus  width,  or  disk
       attributes,  such  as queue depth, that have been setup by iprconfig will be loaded as well.  It is desired that this be called in the boot
       process, using the init.d script provided.

OPTIONS

       --version
	      Print the version number of iprinit

       --debug
	      Enable additional error logging. Enabling this will result in additional errors logging to /var/log/messages.

       --daemon
	      Run as a daemon to handle adapters and devices being hotplugged.

       --use-polling
	      Do not use netlink/uevent notification, but rather poll for adapter and device configuration changes.

       --use-uevents
	      Use netlink/uevent notification rather than polling for adapter and device configuration changes. If not specified, polling will	be
	      used until the first uevent notification appears, then netlink will be used.

AUTHOR

       Brian King (brking@us.ibm.com)

								   February 2005							IPRINIT(8)

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