Re: LPAR Optical requirement

["Larry Bolhuis" <lbolhuis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Not dedicated but available. That is one optical drive for the physical 
system is required and it can be switched between LPARs as needed. This 
rule has not changed.

 - Larry
 
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LPAR Optical requirement






I know that in the past a dedicated optical drive was required for each
LPAR; is this still the case?  It seems odd to me that this requirement
is kept for hardware that could potentially only be used once in the
lifetime of a system.
 
Regards,
 
Scott Ingvaldson
Senior IBM Support Specialist
Fiserv Midwest