Unable to install client AIX LPAR to vscsi hdisk provided from VIOS
Hi everybody,
I have Power5 server with 4 internal hdisks each of 70Gb.
VIOS server was installed via Virtual I/O Server Image Repository on the HMC.
Code:
HMC release - 7.7.0
VIOS rootvg installed on 2 disk(these disks merged to one storage pool during VIOS install process),and 2 others hdisks we are going to use for client LPAR installation.
On VIOS and client LPAR profiles virtual server/client scsi adapter was created with the identical adapter ID on both server/client.
AIX installation process able to see assigned hdisk to LPAR, but during the installation process i got an error:
Code:
mkvg: LVM system call returned with error code (-267)
0516-1184 mkvg: IO failure on hdisk0
0516-862 mkvg: Unable to create volume group.
BOS Install: Could not create the root volume group.
Below details are from VIOS:
$
Code:
lspv
NAME PVID VG STATUS
hdisk0 0003f6e50c012ddc rootvg active
hdisk1 0003f6e50c4341bf rootvg active
hdisk2 none None
hdisk3 0003f6e5e204c376 None
$
$
$ lsmap -vadapter vhost0
SVSA Physloc Client Partition ID
--------------- -------------------------------------------- ------------------
vhost0 U9133.55A.06487EH-V1-C3 0x00000002
VTD vtopt0
Status Available
LUN 0x8200000000000000
Backing device /var/vio/VMLibrary/AIX7_DVD1
Physloc
Mirrored N/A
VTD vtscsi0
Status Available
LUN 0x8100000000000000
Backing device hdisk3
Physloc U787B.001.0000000-P1-T15-L8-L0
Mirrored false
I've attached screenshots of IO configuration on Power5 and VIOS/LPAR Client
Any help would be highly appreciated.
Thank's in advance.
On the VIOS, did you define logical volumes to pass to the LPARs to use, or have you just tried to pass them the whole disk? You should be able to create an LV (and mirror) and then define that as a virtual device passed to the LPAR and install to that.
When you get the SMS up on the LPAR, can you find the disks defined/available for you to install to? Do you get enough of a serial number/id to be sure which you are targetting?
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