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02-16-2019

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AIX: DLPAR VFC - HMC v9

Hey All,

I have running dual VIOS on a P9 systems, and just created a new LPAR profile. My objective is to create LPAR Client VFC adapters, and then DLPAR VFC Server adapters on the VIOS.

In the HMC v9 Enhanced GUI, I have DLPAR a VFC adapter to both VIOS, however, you can't specify the partner adapter to connect to? Why is that?

Also, when I use command line to DLPAR the VFC adapters using chhwres with the -s option, to specify the partner adapter when adding in the VFC adapters to a VIOS, it says that the VFC adapter with X value already has the X value partner adapter already associated with another adapter.
e.g In the VIOS profile, an existing Server Fibre Channel Adapter has Adapter ID 14 and Partner Adapter ID 11, and I want to DLPAR Server Fibre Channel Adapter Adapter ID 15 and Partner Adapter ID 11 (for another LPAR of course) and it won't allow.

Command:

Code:

chhwres -m xyz123 -r virtualio --rsubtype fc -o a -p VIOS_A  -a  "adapter_type=server,remote_lpar_name=xyz123,remote_slot_num=14" -s 11

Why is this failing? All existing Server Fibre Channel adapters in the VIOS profile all have obviously different Server Adapter IDs but all pointing to the same Partner Adapter IDs to their own LPAR clients.

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jfca

jfca(7D)							      Devices								  jfca(7D)

NAME

       jfca - JNI Fibre Channel Adapter (FCA) Driver

SYNOPSIS

       SUNW,jfca@pci-slot

DESCRIPTION

       The  jfca  host	bus  adapter  driver  is a Sun Fibre Channel transport layer-compliant nexus driver for the JNI FCX-6562-L and FCX2-6562-L
       adapters. These adapters support Fibre Channel SCSI and IP Protocols, FC-AL public loop profile, point-to-point, and fabric connection  and
       Fibre Channel service classes two and three.

       The  jfca driver interfaces with the Sun Fibre Channel transport layer to support the standard functions provided by the SCSA interface. It
       supports auto request sense and tagged queueing by default. The driver requires that all devices have  unique  hard  addresses  in  private
       loop configurations.

FILES

       /kernel/drv/sparcv9/jfca

	   64-bit ELF kernel  module

       /kernel/drv/jfca.conf

	   Configuration file

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Architecture		     |SPARC			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWjfca			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       prtconf(1M), driver.conf(4), fcp(7D), fp(7D)

       Writing Device Drivers

       ANSI X3.230:1994, Fibre Channel Physical Signaling (FC-PH)

       Project 1134-D, Fibre Channel Generic Services (FC-GS-2)

       ANSI X3.269-1996, Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL)

       ANSI X3.270-1996, Fibre Channel Protocol for  SCSI (FCP-SCSI)

       ANSI X3.270-1996, SCSI-3 Architecture Model (SAM)

       Fibre Channel Private Loop SCSI Direct  Attach  (FC-PLDA)

       Fabric Loop Attachment (FC-FLA)

SunOS 5.10							    6 Nov 2003								  jfca(7D)