In my system, I have HMC 7 with Power Machine 6 & 7. On the managed system, we have many lpars.
In some lpars, I can see they are using virtual fiber channel to connect to DS8K storage. In search with google, I understand that it is configured with VIOS server to share the physical FC channel with NPIV method.
But the situation is, in the same managed system, there are other lpars have physical FC, the WWpN not starting with C.
So my concern is, what method these lpars use to connect to SAN? How can they can "share/use" the physical FC without VIOS virtual FC?
lpar has virtual FC channel
Code:
[root@xxxxxx] / > lsdev -Cc adapter | grep fcs
fcs0 Available 02-00 8Gb PCI Express Dual Port FC Adapter (df1000f114108a03)
fcs1 Available 02-01 8Gb PCI Express Dual Port FC Adapter (df1000f114108a03)
fcs2 Available 04-00 8Gb PCI Express Dual Port FC Adapter (df1000f114108a03)
fcs3 Available 04-01 8Gb PCI Express Dual Port FC Adapter (df1000f114108a03)
fcs4 Available 06-00 8Gb PCI Express Dual Port FC Adapter (df1000f114108a03)
fcs5 Available 06-01 8Gb PCI Express Dual Port FC Adapter (df1000f114108a03)
Lpar has "physical" FC channel
Code:
[root@xxxxx] / > lsdev -Cc adapter | grep fcs
fcs0 Available 00-00 8Gb PCI Express Dual Port FC Adapter (df1000f114108a03)
fcs1 Available 00-01 8Gb PCI Express Dual Port FC Adapter (df1000f114108a03)
fcs2 Available 01-00 8Gb PCI Express Dual Port FC Adapter (df1000f114108a03)
fcs3 Available 01-01 8Gb PCI Express Dual Port FC Adapter (df1000f114108a03)
fcs4 Available 05-00 8Gb PCI Express Dual Port FC Adapter (df1000f114108a03)
fcs5 Available 05-01 8Gb PCI Express Dual Port FC Adapter (df1000f114108a03)
Both lpars below belongs to 1 power machine 6.
Please advise me on this situation.
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edit by bakunin: Please use CODE-tags for data and terminal output as well as code. Thank you.
Furthermore i am transferring this thread to the AIX board.
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