AIX

Please forgive me here as I don't fully understand what I am talking about here so if I use the wrong terminology please overlook me.

We have multiple AIX LPARs on the managed system with two VIO Servers. A Co-Worker and I are trying to set up a new LPAR client (The guy that knows this is out) and we are drowning. I use VSCSI on on POWER6 system so I know the general idea but this appears to be a bit different. We looked at other profiles and set up things that look right as for the virtual FC adapter in the VIO Server profile. We gave the adapter id 64 and we assigned an LPAR to it SAPTEST(5). Then modified the AIX LPAR profile to include a new FC Adapter and pointed it at the VIOS id side of 64. I think we gave the client side id 5. The LPAR id is 5 as well as the port id. We need to do this on both VIO Servers I know but just working with one right now.

However the output from the lsmap command does not show all the info I see on the other vfchosts already defined. The VFC client name, VFC client DRC, and ClntName slots are empty. From other articles I have read this will only populate after the client LPAR is up and has the proper multipathing software installed on it. Then the client and VIOS will sync up. That doesn't work for me when to get the client LPAR up I am depending on a SAN disk to install the O/S on.

What am I missing? I have run the vfcmap command to assign the vadapter to the VIO servers physical adapter.

Code:

vfcmap -vadapter vfchost15 -fcp fcs1

I have provided the output from the lsmap output below.

Code:

$ lsmap -vadapter vfchost15 -npiv                                               
Name          Physloc                            ClntID ClntName       ClntOS   
------------- ---------------------------------- ------ -------------- -------  
vfchost15     U8233.E8B.101A99P-V2-C64                5                         
                                                                                
Status:NOT_LOGGED_IN                                                            
FC name:fcs1                    FC loc code:U78A0.001.DNWHN7Y-P1-C1-T2          
Ports logged in:0                                                               
Flags:4<NOT_LOGGED>                                                             
VFC client name:                VFC client DRC:

Thank you for your time.

Do those values fill in after you boot your client LPAR?

Since we are depending on a SAN disk for boot we don't have an O/S on this client LPAR because we can't see the disk, so we are just getting to the SMS screen in our case. To answer you question those fields do not fill in.

Did you check them when you were at the SMS menus? The LPAR has to be booted far enough along that the virtual fiber cards are started and you should see them connect to the VIO server. When the LPAR is down, the virtual fiber cards are gone and that is why you don't see them on the VIO server side.

I see the two cards from the SMS menu on the client side that were defined for the client in the HMC, but when looking at lsmap on the VIO side I still see no changes to the output for my vfchost. I have two physical FC cards in my VIO Server should it matter which one I picked when I ran the vfcmap command?

Hi,

I am missing some information about your zoning.
Have you "zoned" the WWPNs from the Virtual Fibre Channel adapter to your Storage Subsystem?

When you start up the LPAR, the Information about:

Code:

Ports logged in:0

should change to (a minimum)

Code:

Ports logged in:1

P.S.

Please can You check (or post) the current configuration with the following HMC command.

Code:

hscroot@<hmc> lssyscfg -r prof -m <Managed System> -F name,lpar_name,virtual_fc_adapters

Boot the client to SMS then select menu item 5. Select Boot Options then select 4. SAN zoning. This will result in the adapters being shown. Select each adapter in turn which will lead to the panel which shows that the adapter is open. The adapter should now be logged into the respective VIO server in the lsmap screen.