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In a perfect world....rootvg would always reside on hdisk0.

cggibbo 270000TMUJ | | Comments (9) | Visits (33451)

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In a perfect world, 99.9% of AIX administrators would prefer their systems to look like this:   # lspv | grep rootvg hdisk0          00c342c68dfcbdfb                     rootvg           active   However, in reality, 99.9% of AIX administrators live with systems that look something like this:   # lspv | grep rootvg hdisk39... [More]

Tags:  hdisk0 chris_gibson rendev rootvg aix

AME activation key identification

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  In a previous post I discussed how you can identify some of the different types of a PowerVM Capacity on Demand (CoD) activation keys from IBM.   Recently I had to Activate Memory Expansion (AME) on a couple of POWER7 systems. I discovered that all of the keys contained a similar string. It appears that if a CoD key contains the string CA1F0000000800 then it is safe to assume it will activate AME for a particular system. e.g.     9741EF3AE6969F17 CA1F0000000800 419D  937A1240F00F5B05 CA1F0000000800 413D   And while I’m talking about AME,... [More]

Tags:  lshwres ca1f0000000800 active_memory_expansion powervm ame power7 chris_gibson curr_mem_expansion chhwres mem_expansion pend_mem_expansion aix dlpar
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