In a perfect world....rootvg would always reside on hdisk0.
In a perfect world, 99.9% of AIX administrators would prefer their systems to look like this: # lspv | grep rootvg hdisk0 00c342c68dfcbdfb rootvg active However, in reality, 99.9% of AIX administrators live with systems that look something like this: # lspv | grep rootvg hdisk39... [More]
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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]
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