I am using the VIOS Shared Storage Pools more these days and it reduces my system admin time and I really like the Thin Provisioning feature as I have limited SAN disks. Any way, I dusted off an machine that I did my initial investigation on and decided to rebuilt the cluster (of one VIOS) now that I know what I am doing :-)    The  command : cluster -create -clustername galaxy  -repopvs hdisk2   -spname atlantic -sppvs hdisk3 hdisk4 hdisk5   -hostname diamondvios1 fails with "PV IS IN USE hdisk4".  PV meaning Physical Volume. Yes,... [More]

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