Rob:
Unless your upgrading a test box I would not want to be near the first of
the group that puts up 3.1.x.x in VIOS. I've got 2.2.6.32 running most
everywhere now and it's solid. I'll wait for the .20 update at least before
I consider it in a production environment.
As to the upgrade, the article you cite is so full of AIX and VIOS are the
only OS under the planet that it makes it nearly worthless. How many IBM i
shops have a fully functional NIM server up and running? Very low
percentage with a decimal point in front.
I'll do the upgrade on my own system most likely next week. I will do the
double bump, upgrade to 3.1.0.0 first then apply the fixpack to 3.1.0.10.
Figure it's like loading or upgrading IBM i then putting on the PTFs.
The process is reasonably straight forward as you have done before, just
check out the pre-requisites a bit harder and a slightly different command.
Why they are forcing a backup and restore I have not yet figured out.
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Jim Oberholtzer
Agile Technology Architects
-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Rob Berendt
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2018 5:24 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Upgrading VIOS from 2.something to 3.something.
I am at vios 2.2.6.31.
I want to get up to the latest level of 3.
I figured I would upgrade to 2.2.6.32 first.
I've done a few of these within level 2. I have the steps down pretty good.
Going to 3 is a whole different animal. Kind of like the difference between
applying PTF's and doing a release upgrade. Instead of updateios you use
viosupgrade.
<snip>
Upgrading from VIOS version 2.2.4 and above The VIOS must first be upgraded
to 3.1.0.00 before the 3.1.0.10 update can be applied. To learn more about
how to do that, please read the information provided at
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/9009-42A/p9hb1/p9hb1_vios_mig
rate_viosupgrade_methods.htm
</snip>
A wiki article is at
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en-us#!/wiki/Po
wer%20Systems/page/Virtual%20IO%20Server%20(VIOS)%20upgrade%20method%20using
%20mksysb%20install%20and%20viosbr
Does anyone have any "real world" examples? Or a cheat sheet they follow?
The documentation on updateios is pretty good compared to this.
Rob Berendt
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