Re: IBM PS700 (840670Y) Replaced -- MIDRANGE-L

I'll add also that the old system was totally inaccessible. A voltage regulator went bad.
I do appreciate the insight I've gotten here today.
On Friday, July 9, 2021, 3:01:49 PM CDT, BRUCE VAIL <bjvail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Why does everything have to be so complicated.
The AIX server ended up being covered by an extended hardware warranty, so the guy that came and replaced it just swapped blade servers out. Software support is another area. He gave me some contact information for someone who specializes in this area, but before I got a third party in here to work on it figured I would ask to see if it was hopefully just as simple as telling the DS3500 that the new Host Interface was allowed to connect and access those logical drives and everything would go back to working.
And it is a production machine. Kind of. Need it to access and move old medical records.
He did place some little chip back in the chassis and the serial number changed over to match the old one, but that may not mean anything when it comes to getting it back going.
Thanks for your help, I at least know now what to expect when I call in additional support.

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On Friday, July 9, 2021, 12:38 PM, Roberto José Etcheverry Romero <yggdrasil.raiker@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Replacing the sysboard on a PS700 is not a trivial matter, there's a lot of
procedures you have to follow and if you didn't have a backup of your
VIOS/IVM config you have to tinker to repair devices if they get enumerated
differently (just to start).
Whoever replaced the sysboard should have migrated the VPD, disks, and FC
adapter. With that you shouldn't have to remap anything, but you will have
to fix the VIOS because the FSP lives in the sysboard and replacing it
means losing the partition information.
I hope you can at least start that way, but it's not something I'd like to
learn to fix on my production machine.
Best of luck

Roberto

On Fri, 9 Jul 2021 at 11:35, BRUCE VAIL <bjvail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Yesterday we swapped out a PS700 (840670Y). It's in a BladeCenter S. The
planar went bad on the old one. New one is powered up, in SMS, but I don't
want to screw up and lose all my existing data. I'm not familiar enough
with these setups to just start clicking and typing. In the storage manager
I can see the old Host Port Identifiers, so is it just a matter of adding
the new Host Port Identifier as an option in storage manager? The backend
storage is a DS3500 So, my overall question is this, in order to regain
access to the existing data in the new blade, do I just need to add the
Host Port Identifier to the mappings for the host?
I've tried to provide as much information as I can and ask the question in
a way it makes sense. If I need to provide more information please let me
know. Because at this point I don't know what I don't know and don't want
to muddy the water up by including too much impertinent information.
Thanks in advance,
BJ

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