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Operating Systems AIX PowerVM/lpar creation problems Post 302945505 by bakunin on Friday 29th of May 2015 08:06:53 PM
Old 05-29-2015
Quote:
Originally Posted by computron
I see under the LPARs profile, the LHEA lists 4 etities. leave it to IBM to NOT call them NICs or give them names of any sort, like 'broadcom xxxx' , they just leave them as
Code:
U7aa.001.wzsg7kk-p1-c3-t1
" " t2
" "t3
" " t4

You might want to read this for help on configuring LHEAs. IMHO you should go for SEAs instead because these are more high-availability.

Anyhow, the "ugly names" you belittle are location codes. You can deduct from the location code exactly where a (physical) adapter has been placed and of which type it is. This information is much more valuable when you have a big system with several CECs and dozens of adapters and you want to replace one of these than the "Broadcom blabla" would be. It is really not IBMs fault that you seemingly have never had to administrate anything even midrange-sized, let alone the bigger irons.

You might have a very small system but it is built (and works) the same way as the dozen or so p780s that populate our data center. To work with a system that houses 50 LPARs with ease you need other methods than when you work with some PC. ESX basically run on PC hardware, somewhat rugged ip to be data center-ready. AIX does not. AIX runs on systems far bigger in every respect than any PC. Just have a look at the p780 and p870 datasheets to find out just how big these systems can get.

You might find the methods employed overly complicated but i can tell you from years-long experience that they are perfectly reasonable in an enterprise-level context. I suggest you either start using these methods and exploit the advantages they offer or you return to administrating your ESXi- or whatever virtualisation-platform you prefer.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
 

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SBP(4)							   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 						    SBP(4)

NAME
sbp -- Serial Bus Protocol 2 (SBP-2) Mass Storage Devices driver SYNOPSIS
kldload firewire kldload cam kldload sbp or device sbp device firewire device scbus device da device cd device pass DESCRIPTION
The sbp driver provides support for SBP-2 devices that attach to the FireWire (IEEE 1394) port. It should work with SBP-2 devices which the CAM layer supports, for example, HDDs, CDROM drives and DVD drives. Some users familiar with umass(4) might wonder why the device is not detached at the CAM layer when the device is unplugged. It is detached only if the device has not been plugged again during several bus resets. This is for preventing to detach an active file system even when the device cannot be probed correctly for some reason after a bus reset or when the device is temporary disconnected because the user changes the bus topology. If you want to force to detach the device, run ``fwcontrol -r'' several times or set hw.firewire.hold_count=0 by sysctl(1). Some (broken) HDDs do not work well with tagged queuing. If you have problems with such drives, try ``camcontrol [device id] tags -N 1'' to disable tagged queuing. SEE ALSO
cam(4), firewire(4), camcontrol(8), fwcontrol(8), kldload(8), sysctl(8) AUTHORS
The sbp driver was written by Katsushi Kobayashi and Hidetoshi Shimokawa. This manual page was written by Katsushi Kobayashi. BSD
May 20, 2002 BSD
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