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PowerVM/lpar creation problems
Hi,
I'm a newbie to PowerVM and LPARs ( I work with VmWare and Oracle VM Server for Sparc) .recently we purchased an 8202-e4b server, with two enclosures for add'l disk capacity. it is licensed for PowerVM standard,came preloaded as such, AIX 7.1.
I've set up HMC v8.2, and run it through a VM on a Vmware esxi server.
in short,via HMC, I can create one VM , install AIX on it, network it, etc, but when I try to create a 2nd Vm,it doesn't 'see' any devices other than the HEA's added to the VM via profile..the profile also has client SCSI added,
and a Raid Controller set with 'as desired' checked off..
for #1 Vm, I have Raid controller also set to 'as desired' and one client SCSI adapter.basically,profile for VM 2 is identical to profile for VM1..I've even changed the ID's of the SCSI adapters so that they're not the same.
any idea why I cannot see the DVD drive and hard drive for the 2nd VM?
also, I've uploaded VIOS disk 1 and 2 to the HMC respository, and I'm able to create a VIOS server 'system' from template, but while monitoring it with the Vterm,
it gets to the part where it asks for disk #2, but since it's ready-only terminal, I have no way of telling it where to find the source for disk #2..although, disk 1 and 2 are in the same folder the system 'should' see it anyways, right?
I've even tried the newly enhanced gui v8.2, and that doesn't work either..
I've tried to create VIOS manually, disk 1 goes fine, I then insert disk 2, and basically watch it fail to install from disk.I've burned 3 dvd's,and downloaded disk 2 from IBM twice already so it can't be bad media.
it's completely frustrating and I'm just at the point where I think it's best to have an IBM rep come in and set this up.
why did they make things so overly complex and just plain hard to deal with?
I've even reset the server ( via ASMI) to factory default, which gives me one partition with all system resources. I re-enter PowerVm codes to make sure it's working as 'standard' and that I get to make add'l VMs.but I can't get past having just one and only one, VM.
any idea what I'm doing wrong here?