Re: Quickest, easiest way to load OS on new partition

[Steve McKay <samckay1@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, we are using VIOS.

On the HMC, I can see "Templates and OS Images" under "HMC Management".
This looks promising but when I click "Add Install Resource", there are
only options for AIX and RedHat.  Is this what you mean by 'virtual storage
repository'?

Thanks,

Steve McKay
(205) 585-8424
samckay1@xxxxxxxxx



On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 2:30 PM Steve Pavlichek <spavlichek@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Are you using VIOS for virtualization? If yes, then you could move the LIC
> and base OS .ISOs to the virtual storage repository on one of the VIOS’s
> and load from virtual DVD.
>
>
> From: Steve McKay<mailto:samckay1@xxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2020 2:19 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion<mailto:
> midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Quickest, easiest way to load OS on new partition
>
> We have an HMC-managed Power 8 with several IBM i partitions along with
> other AIX and Linux partitions.  What is the quickest, easiest way to load
> the OS on a newly created partition?
>
> We don't have physical media but we do have the full V7R3 OS in an IFS
> directory on one of the existing partitions.  These are the images that
> were used when we upgraded the other partitions to V7R3 (probably V7R3 TR3
> so we would have to get the latest TR and PTFs after we get the new
> partition functional).
>
> The partition has not yet been created (if that's a factor in your
> recommendation).  This is not i-hosting-i - this will be a separate
> partition with its own resources.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve McKay
> (205) 585-8424
> samckay1@xxxxxxxxx
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