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Troubleshooting AIX hdisk configuration errors
Last year I was working for a customer that was upgrading several AIX 5.3 systems to AIX 6.1 . The migrations were successful for the most part, but we did encounter one issue that took a little time to resolve. The customer was using nimadm to migrate. This process worked fine, however, on a couple of systems a strange error was encountered after the migration. The LPAR was booted into AIX 6.1 and everything came up fine. The applications were started and users started accessing the system. It was several days later, when the AIX... [More]
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Replicated rootvg, ghostdev and NPIV
My team and I have recently
been trying to stream line our AIX disaster recovery process. We’ve been
looking for ways to reduce our overall recovery time. Several ideas were tossed
around such as a) using a standby DR LPAR with AIX already installed and using
rsync/scp to keep the Prod & DR LPARs in sync and b) using alt_disk_copy
(with the –O flag for a device reset) to clone rootvg to an alternate disk
which is then replicated to DR. These methods may work but are cumbersome to
administer and (in the case of alt_disk_copy) require... [More]
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