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UPDATED: Migration to AIX 7.1 in 35 minutes
Virtually converted to AIX 7 I just did my first migration of an LPAR to AIX 7.1. I chose to migrate my AIX 6.1 NIM server. I first downloaded AIX 7.1 from the Entitled Software Support web site . I copied the two ISO images to the Virtual Media Library on the VIO server, and I broadly followed the procedure outlined by my compatriot Chris Gibson in his article AIX Migration with File-Backed VIOS Devices . I gave the two ISO images shorter names when I copied them into /var/vio/VMLibrary. You can also rename them using the VIO server mkvopt or... [More]
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Free coffee with every AIX 7 install
THE COFFEE CUP HOLDER IN THE COOL ROOM When I went to install the AIX
7 open beta , I used the VIO server virtual media
library. Virtual. No need to burn DVDs to put in the coffee cup holder in the IBM machine in the
cool room a.k.a. the data centre. Did it all remotely, even though the
data centre was literally across the room. After stepping through the SMS menus and pressing enter to continue the
mksysb restore, the install of AIX 7 took 7 minutes , which was <!--
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