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Originally Posted by juredd1

We are booting the VIO servers from SAN disks.

Then as long as you map your virtual fibre channel adapters to the same physical adapters you will know that the connection will be live and a FLOGGI will happen for the virtual fibre channel adapters. However it might be that the visible Virtual World Wide Name will not be visible from the storage. What storage are you connecting to IBM, HP or something else. There are two ways to "illuminate" the HBAs, these are:

Code:

SMS

or

Code:

ioinfo

from the open firmware prompt.

The best one to use is SMS as you can illuminate the HBA and leave it in that state until you hit return, thus the storage team will see the VWWN.

The ioinfo method is good to check the working of the VHBAs.

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