Re: Are IXS cards switchable between LPARs?

["Luis Rodriguez" <luisrodriguez@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff, Kent,

Not very sure about this but, I think this could be because the IXS has a 
portion of the disk allocated for Windows/Linux so, in this case, you would 
be asking one LPAR to use disk resources already allocated to another LPAR.

Regards,
Luis Rodriguez

----- Original Message ----- 
> message: 1
> date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 20:41:01 -0700 (PDT)
> from: Jeff Young <cooljeff913@xxxxxxxxx>
> subject: Re: Are IXS cards switchable between LPARs?
>
> Kent,
> I do not know why the LVT wouild not let you, but if you do not have 
> anything else on the IOP, you should just be able to define it as optional 
> in the partition definitions.  The first partition to start would allocate 
> the resource, but if you varied it off, you should be able to use the 
> Dynamic Partition Manager to move the resource to another partition.  The 
> key here is that the IOP must be moved as well as the IOA.
> There may be something special about the IXS card that prohibits this, but 
> I am not aware of it.
>
>
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> kenth@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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> The LVT won't let me, but I don't know if this is problem with the LVT. I
> can't think of a reason why these can't be switched. Unless it has
> something to do with the slot location?
>
> TIA
>
> Kent Hohlen
> Raynor
> Dixon IL 61021