Re: P9 config questions

I think we are talking about the same, but some delay . You can just create the virtual adapter "on the fly" and then delete this adapter (let's say number 99) on the server side. On the client side, once you installed the 2nd VIOS you just delete the adapter and this never happened

Regards

Diego E. KESSELMAN


On 27/09/2018 12:33, DrFranken wrote:

Or you simply create an AIX partition with the guest connection for the media. Once it's booted up and VIOS is loaded onto the disk it will complain "Hey I'm not AIX I'm VIOS. Cannot Run."  So at that point you delete the partition and recreate as VIOS. Since it's installed now it boots up fine to let you complete the configuration.

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On 9/26/2018 1:47 PM, Diego E. KESSELMAN wrote:

I know , but you can trick PowerVM and create a server/guest vscsi from command line. And works really well.

Regards,

Diego E. KESSELMAN


On 26/09/2018 12:25, Jim Oberholtzer wrote:

VOIS must be a physical partition, aside from SAN boot, it cannot be a guest
of any type.

Funny, I've built I don't know how many partitions that way and not any
issue whatsoever.  If the installation of the partition becomes problematic,
then fix the network first.  The image is still on the HMC and should be
very close to the system so there should not be anything but maybe a core
switch between the HMC and the new partition.  If that's not robust enough
for an installation, it's not robust enough for production.


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-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Roberto José Etcheverry Romero
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2018 11:56 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: P9 config questions

Diego, I've tried to have VIOS as a guest for vscsi and it's never worked,
the GUI doesn't let you set VIOS as a vscsi client, only server. Maybe the
enhanced gui does? I haven't tried it again.
Jim, the problem lies in that the network install is really a NIM install,
that uses an ethernet adapter local to the LPAR an therefore doesn't go over
the FSP link between HMC and POWER machine.

Best Regards,

Roberto

On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 1:06 PM, Jim Oberholtzer <
midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

This is completely different than StorWise.  If you follow IBM
instructions in building the USB device, it works well.

How can a network issue come into play when the HMC has a solid
Ethernet cable from the HMC port to the HMC?  Now if you are running
that connection over a LAN and it's not in its own completely
different network than any other traffic, then we have some other
items to discuss regarding security and a host of other things.


--
Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects


-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Diego E. KESSELMAN
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2018 10:27 AM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: P9 config questions

You can install 1 VIOS from HMC (image repository), and then create
the other as gest to the 1st VIOS, but you must be quite sure this works.
Any small network issue and you are in big trouble.

With a DVD drive you can ask your H&E to insert the media and that's it.

Haven't tried with USB thumb drive, but I don't feel comfortable using
them.
I still remember first Storwize with SPECIAL usb pen drives, and HMCs
with STEC pen drives...

Regards

Diego E. KESSELMAN

On 26/09/2018 06:17, Rob Berendt wrote:

Roberto,
If they outsource recovery, upgrades, etc, that's one thing.  But if
you're visiting COMMON US and they have a disaster and need to do a
bare metal restore they may wish they had a DVD on site. But
perhaps your firm has staff to cover...


Rob Berendt

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