AIX multibos mksysb migration
I’ve
written about multibos before, here and here . But recently I
started experimenting with multibos mksysb migration. A customer asked me how
this worked and apart from a high-level view I wasn’t able to provide any real
world experience, so I thought I’d give it a try. What follows is just a ‘brain
dump’ from my quick test. First of all
this isn’t really a migration. It just simply populates a second instance of
AIX with a higher-version. It doesn’t really migrate (or merge) your existing
configuration into the second instance. So... [More]
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DLPAR not doing it for you anymore?
I received an email from one of my customers recently that simply said: “mate …on lpar30, for some reason the IBM.DRM and others are failing to start .. um .. any chance you could have a quick look at that ?” So I asked, “OK, so this use to work right?”. To which I received a relatively confused reply, ” .....yep it did....actually no....it’s never worked....or has it???...I’m not sure... ”. Based on my experience, the most common issue that prevents DLPAR operations... [More]
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New AIX Service and Release Strategy - Starting February 2011
IBM
recently announced some significant changes to their ‘AIX Release and Service
Delivery’ strategy. Starting February 2011, the following changes will apply
for both AIX 6 and AIX 7. •
Three years of support for each Technology Level
(TL). •
A single Technology Level per AIX version, per year. •
Service Packs will be released approximately 4 times
per year per Technology Level. Some of the benefits of the new strategy are: Longer
support for Technology Levels. – More... [More]
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Virtual I/O Server and DS5020 disk.
Recently I
had the pleasure of configuring a couple of POWER7 720s for a customer. Each
720 was to host roughly 12 LPARs each. There were two VIO servers and a NIM
server per 720. Everything
went along nicely and according to plan. In a few days we had both systems
built. My steps for building the systems were almost identical to those
described by Rob McNelly in a recent post . All four
VIO servers were running the latest VIOS code i.e. 2.2.0.10-FP-24 SP-01 . All the client LPARs were running AIX 6.1 TL6 SP3 . Each VIOS... [More]
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