Re: Creating IBM i Client Partitions Using Virtual Partition Manager GUI

[Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'll pass along an update for anyone who may be interested in this. I was
able to set up a 2nd LPAR by using Virtual Partition Manager, and set up a
LAN console via ACS. In the future I may document this further because IBM
technical notes didn't answer all my questions. I still don't quite get the
part about virtual ethernet. But I was able to get a LAN console connected
that way. I'll continue to investigate that.



On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 11:02 AM, Jim Oberholtzer <
midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Gotchas, not really.  The article does gloss over the importance of the
> network server descriptions being set up properly.  If you ask Larry and
> me, we will both create at least two NWSD.  One the handles nothing but the
> network server storage and one that sets up tape/DVD.
>
>  CRTNWSD    NWSD(BARNEY1) RSRCNAME(CTL09) TYPE(*GUEST +
>               *OPSYS) ONLINE(*NO) VRYWAIT(*NOWAIT) +
>               SHUTDTIMO(31) PARTITION(*NONE) PTNNBR(3) +
>               CODEPAGE(437) MSGQ(*JOBLOG) +
>               POOL(*SHRPOOL50) TCPPORTCFG(*NONE) +
>               TCPRTE(*NONE) TCPHOSTNAM(*NWSD) +
>               TCPDMNNAME(*SYS) TCPNAMSVR(*SYS) +
>               RSTDDEVRSC(*ALLTAPE *ALLOPT) +
>               IPLSRC(*NWSSTG) IPLSTMF(*NONE) +
>               IPLPARM(*NONE) PWRCTL(*NO) SRVOPT(*NONE) +
>               TEXT(*BLANK)
>  CRTNWSD    NWSD(BARNEYP) RSRCNAME(CTL07) TYPE(*GUEST +
>               *OPSYS) ONLINE(*NO) VRYWAIT(*NOWAIT) +
>               SHUTDTIMO(31) PARTITION(*NONE) PTNNBR(3) +
>               CODEPAGE(437) MSGQ(*JOBLOG) +
>               POOL(*SHRPOOL50) TCPPORTCFG(*NONE) +
>               TCPRTE(*NONE) TCPHOSTNAM(*NWSD) +
>               TCPDMNNAME(*SYS) TCPNAMSVR(*SYS) +
>               TCPDMNNAME(*SYS) TCPNAMSVR(*SYS) +
>               RSTDDEVRSC(*NONE)            +
>               IPLSRC(*NWSSTG) IPLSTMF(*NONE) +
>               IPLPARM(*NONE) PWRCTL(*NO) SRVOPT(*NONE) +
>               TEXT(*BLANK)
>
>
> The key is the RSTDDEVRSC parameter.  BARNEY1 does not allow tape/DVD,
> BARNEYP does.
>
> Then your image catalog can be used for loading the OS, LPP, and PTFs etc.
>
> Make sure you set the storage up right.  If this is a test/dev/playground,
> then set it up with whatever storage you need, but use at least 40GB drives
> when you create them to keep them over the 35GB lower limit.  if this is a
> production partition in any way, make sure there are at least 6 disk units.
>
> Also note that I used shared storage pools to run these in to keep them out
> of *BASE.
>
>
> Jim Oberholtzer
> CEO/Chief Technical Architect
> Agile Technology Architects