I LPM'ed an AIX LPAR from Frame A to Frame B. The LPAR id before the LPM was 99 and after the LPM it's still 99. And the system id has changed, as expected. Good.   Before migration.   root@lpar1 / # uname -L 99 lpar1   root@lpar1 / # lsattr -El sys0 -a systemid systemid IBM, 017268B60 Hardware system identifier False   After migration.   root@lpar1 / # uname -L 99 lpar1   root@lpar1 / # lsattr -El sys0 -a systemid systemid IBM, 0157F5B16 Hardware system identifier False   Great, that's exactly... [More]

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My team and I have recently been trying to stream line our AIX disaster recovery process. We’ve been looking for ways to reduce our overall recovery time. Several ideas were tossed around such as a) using a standby DR LPAR with AIX already installed and using rsync/scp to keep the Prod & DR LPARs in sync and b) using alt_disk_copy (with the –O flag for a device reset) to clone rootvg to an alternate disk which is then replicated to DR. These methods may work but are cumbersome to administer and (in the case of alt_disk_copy) require... [More]

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