Re: VIOS and CEC DVD Drive on Power 720

[Sue Baker <sue.baker@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Kirk Goins wrote on Wed, 19 Oct 2011 21:47:30 GMT:

> IBM just says create more Virtual Adapters... OK I can create
> up to 1012 per machine, that in itself doesn't help. I
> ASS-U-ME I must tag/mark/point these adapters to this DVD. So
> with 5 IBM i guests, do I need 5 separate virtual adapters in
> VIOS each pointing to a different guest machine/partition? 

No, one vSCSI server for the DVD drive will work for all the 
client LPARs.

> If
> so can I just point all of the VIOS adapters at the same DVD
> resource in VIOS or Do I need to create 5 virtual DVDs in
> VIOS?  

A single mapping of the real DVD to a virtual DVD should be 
enough to do the job.

> So far most of the docs I can find ref the HMC and not
> SDMC. While the SDMC is the follow on replacement for the HMC,
> it does something differently... 

My understanding is SDMC has different terminology for the tasks.  
So, if you understand the language of the SDMC and you understand 
the language of HMC, you can perform the translation of what must 
be done to how it is done on the other.

Sue