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Make sure you monitor file system space on your VIOS.
Make sure you are monitoring file
system space on your VIOS. Why? If you run out of space in the root
file system, odd things can happen when you try to map virtual devices to
virtual adapters with mkvdev . For example, a colleague of mine was
attempting to map a new hdisk to a vhost adapter on a pair of VIOS. The VIOS
was running a recent version of code. He received the following error message
(see below). It wasn’t a very helpful message. At first I thought it was due to
the fact that he had not set the reserve_policy attribute... [More]
Tags: root_filesystem_is_full this_may_or_may_not_indic... vios aix mkvdev cli_debug=33 powervm 0514-548 chris_gibson the_command's_response_wa... |
VLAN tagging and the VIOS: some questions and answers.
Here are some questions I received recently regarding VLAN
tagging on the VIO server. My answers are shown in green . “Hi Chris, Q: I’m trying to
understand when, where and why there would be the need to use ‘mkvdev –vlan
(etc.) on the VIOS, and I’m wondering whether you would be able to clarify this
for me, please. Is it necessary to add
the VLAN tag devices to the SEA, or is it suffice to just have them defined
within the Virtual Ethernet itself which is part of the SEA?” A:
It is suffice to simply define the VLAN ids assigned... [More]
Tags: ent6 tagging sea virt_adapters=ent3 power7 vlan hmc tag -attr ent5 mkvdev -dev -vlan chdev dlpar dynamic |
