AIX Double Boot!
This is something
that I experience on all new Power/AIX systems that I install: System migrated to AIX
5.3 (or later) might experience double boot When booting AIX Version 5.3 (or
later) on a system that has previously been running an earlier release of AIX, you
may notice that the system automatically reboots and restarts the boot process.
This is how the firmware processes changed information in the boot image. This
reboot also occurs if the process is reversed. A system previously running AIX
5.3 (or later) that is booting a... [More]
Tags:  boot chris gibson double aix |
Collecting WWPNs for new Virtual Fibre Channel Adapters
I was
collecting a list of WWPNs for a bunch of new AIX LPARs I was installing from
scratch. There were two ways I could find the WWPN for a virtual Fibre Channel
adapter on a new LPAR i.e. one that did not yet have an operating system
installed. I started by
checking the LPAR properties from the HMC (as shown below). To speed
things up I moved to the HMC command line tool, lssyscfg , to display the
WWPNs (as shown below). hscroot@hmc1:~> lssyscfg -r prof -m 750-2
-F virtual_fc_adapters --filter lpar_names=lpar1... [More]
Tags:  wwpn vfc sed lssyscfg aix fibre gibson channel hmc chris virtual |