DLPAR and AIX 5.3
I’ve shared
my tips for resolving DLPAR problems in the past . So this week, when one of my
colleagues was experiencing an issue with DLPAR, I referred him to my blog post
and suggested he follow the troubleshooting steps. He did so and I went about
my business. Later that same day I asked him how he had fared. He told me that
DLPAR was still not working on his particular AIX LPAR. It was an AIX 5.3
system and he was attempting to another Virtual Processor to the LPAR. He
expressed his frustration with the situation, so I offered to take... [More]
Tags: ibm.drm csm.client csm_core aix lssrc dlpar csm_client lpar lsrsrc chris_gibson |
Using a post-migration script with nimadm
I’ve received a couple of requests for an example of using a
post migration script with nimadm .
What follows is a simple example of using such a resource with NIM. If you are
not familiar with the nimadm tool then
perhaps you’d like to start first by reading my article on using nimadm to migrate to AIX 6.1. The nimadm utility
can perform both pre and post migration tasks. This is accomplished by running
NIM scripts either before or after a migration. The tool accepts the following
flags for pre and post migration script resources: ... [More]
Tags: script aix post-migration nim chris_gibson nimadm |
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: this_may_or_may_not_indic... root_filesystem_is_full vios aix mkvdev cli_debug=33 powervm 0514-548 chris_gibson the_command's_response_wa... |
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