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IVM and VLAN Tagging
I was working
with a customer recently on a Power Blade that was running the Integrated
Virtualisation Manager (IVM). They’d installed a VIO partition onto the Blade
and had hoped to install a couple of AIX LPARs on the system. However they didn’t
get very far. As soon as they
attempted to NIM install the LPARs, they would get stuck at trying to ping the
NIM master from the client. Basically, the Shared Ethernet Adapter (SEA) was
not working properly and none of the LPARs could communicate with the external
network. So they asked for... [More]
Tags: ivm chhwres vlan lshwres tag aix vios sea |
AME activation key identification
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 dlpar aix |
