Re: Tape; 2nd port of 5735; 8 Gigabit PCI Express Dual Port Fibre Channel Adapter -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: Tape; 2nd port of 5735; 8 Gigabit PCI Express Dual Port Fibre Channel Adapter
From: DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2015 15:31:28 -0500
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It has been my experience that firmware tracks the WWPN pairs and DOES re-assign the same pair when removing and re-adding them. But I have no documentation that says it's SUPPOSED to do that. :-)

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On 12/21/2015 3:26 PM, Marc Rauzier wrote:

I am not sure that we keep the same WWPN for the added virtual adapter
than the one we had for the virtual adapter which was removed. It may be
necessary to force this WWPN with the HMC command line.

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