RE: IMAGE Catalogs and NFS

The best approach to learning how to do this is with the redpaper "IBM i
Network Install" REDP-4937-00

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/redp4937.html

If you search on it a bit you'll find a couple of interesting articles too.
Developer works has more information.

The hard one is the first one, the rest are stupid easy.

Basically you need a free Ethernet port that does not have any
configurations on it (real or virtual). Then you configure it in SST, in
the same place as you configure the LAN console.


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Jim, is this a requirement if the systems are on the lan/wan.

How is the service tool server configured since this will not be on a system
with lan console, this system is on HMC.


On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 2:01 PM, Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

wrote:

If you're PTF/Group host partition is on the same box as the other
partitions use the VLAN over the backplane. Make sure to heed the
recommendations regarding frame sizes, they are not really
recommendations, more like requirements.

Since we are mostly using 4 port Ethernet cards now; If the systems
are co-located in the same room, I have been using one of the empty
ports on each system and directly connecting a cable between the
systems (no switch/router/hub etc. device) then configuring the
connection the same way I do the VLAN. We have been finding it to be
nearly as fast as the backplane VLAN. I almost always use a Cat6 cable

but I don't think that

really matters. Now you can use the same NFS technique between systems
in
the same location.

It works well over a LAN/WAN but is slower due to the overhead of the
LAN/WAN.

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Chief Technical Architect
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I keep thinking about trying this. I have 11 lpars. But when I get
started I'm normally under some crunch. Or the NFS is recommended
over vlan and that would be a local lpar to that frame. Well, I
rarely bring down just one lpar on that rack without bringing them all
down and that can be a problem if they're too dependent on each other.

Still, I need to give this more effort.

Rob Berendt
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From: Jack Kingsley <iseriesflorida@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 04/04/2014 11:50 AM
Subject: IMAGE Catalogs and NFS
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Any input to how promising this is on 6.1 and 7.1 Looking to test
this out and wanted to see how well it works. Can these images be on
a PC as well or must they be on NFS IBM I.
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