Re: Using NFS to distribute ptfs

[Jack Kingsley <iseriesflorida@xxxxxxxxx>]

Is this scenario supported on 5.4 or only on 6.1 and up.

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 8:26 PM, DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> FYI You can do both.
>
> Using NFS Served Image Catalogs for PTFs only requires IBM i 6.1 or newer.
>
> Using NFS Served Image Catalogs for Upgrades requires IBM I 6.1 or newer
> *AND POWER6 or newer hardware.
>
>     - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis
>
> On 9/27/2011 2:35 PM, Evan Harris wrote:
> > You mean IPL-ing from an image catalog on NFS instead of image
> > catalogs on local storage ?
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 4:41 AM,<rob@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> > > Came this close to using NFS to distribute PTFs between my various lpars
> > > and machines this week.  Couldn't quite get it to work so I opened up a
> > > pmr.  Turns out that it can't go out over hardware currently in use.
>  For
> > > example if you are using CMN01 for your regular TCP/IP communications
> > > (let's say line LANLINE) you cannot have LANLINE varied on when using
> it.
> > > So you either have to vary the line off (really unpopular when people
> are
> > > using it) or use another resource.  Apparently virtual lan is really
> > > popular for inter lpar communications and is one solution that people
> are
> > > using.  IBM admitted that the inability to share a resource is one big
> > > bummer in adoption of this method.
> > >
> > > Those of you using NFS for this, am I off base here?
> > >
> > >
> > > Rob Berendt
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