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PowerVM presentations: Over the Shoulder
Among the plethora of good AIX resources coming to our browsers in the last week, a few deserve a particular mention. First, there was the Power IT Pro Virtual Conference. I had a chance to watch Rob McNelly's presentation. Rob, who writes the unmissable weekly AIXchange blog , covered a lot of AIX topics, letting the viewer look over his shoulder as he strolled through the use of: virtual optical disks installing AIX7 from virtual optical creating WPARs, versioned WPARs for AIX 5.2 WPARs on AIX 7 (boy, this is easy) Live Partition Mobility in... [More]
Tags: wpar live_partition_mobility virtual_optical powervm tuning aix rob_mcnelly ken_milberg vmlibrary performance resources aix7 lpm vio |
IVM to HMC Migration - a Customer's Experience
In September 2009 Rob McNelly wrote on his AIXChange blog about Migrating from the IVM to the HMC . I have documented my own experience of this procedure. You can download it from here , at a very affordable price of USD 0.00 (no refunds). The IVM or Integrated Virtualization Manager, is a browser interface to the VIO server on smaller systems, and it has HMC-like functionality, such as Dynamic LPAR, the ability to configure LPARs, stop and start them and so on. The HMC (Hardware Management Console, as you know) is able to manage several... [More]
Tags: integrated_virtualization... sea management ethernet lpar virtual ivm id outage shared rob_mcnelly hmc v7.3.5.0 dlpar power server aix adapter ibm hardware_management_conso... migration |
AIX installation from the ground up
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]
Tags: aixchange boot nim install virtual_media bare_metal dvd build greenfield vmlibrary new_install restore lpar rob_mcnelly backup ground green_field vio aix |
