Greenfield installations   In his AIXchange blog , Rob McNelly speaks about VIO backups and explains how he uses the Virtual Media library to build a new Power system in a completely new environment. It may be helpful to run through Rob's procedure and provide some background and documentation on the steps which he uses. One VIO, then NIM The system is straight out of the box, and there is no NIM server, so here are the basic steps which Rob suggests. (I've added a couple of steps of my own along the way). Boot first VIO server from the DVD... [More]

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